On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:30:11 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Thanks Martin,

Maybe I'll turn it over to my wife. She was a programmer for many years
until wising up and becoming a systems engineer (now retired). :-D

Dan, last night I got GPLIGC version 1.pre10 running - so far it looks
good, though as its effectively a beta release you might want to stick to
release 1.9

pre10 can only be built from source, so needs a C/C++ compiler. The only
problem I had was not understanding the way the OpenGL graphics package
is built. GPLIGC needs the GLUT utility package and it turns out that the
original version is abandonware for historical reasons, so I was stalled
until I discovered that GPLIGC uses the freeglut version. Then there was
a bijou snaggette which may be specific to RedHat Linuxes and their
clones: freeglut builds the GLUT library (which was already installed
under RedHat Fedora 22 as part of the freeglut package BUT this is only
the binary library, and to compile GPLIGC you also need the freeglut_devel
package, which is NOT installed by default - this contains the headers
etc that a compiler needs. Once I'd installed both ('dnf install
freeglut*') the compilation ran to completion and version pre10 burst
into life.

Apologies to all the non-developers on here, but I've posted the above in
the hope that it saves some head-scratching for anybody else attempting
to build GPLIGC from source.


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