Code Warrior and Win ME (Oh please, shoot me!)

[kellody]

Hey, i'll probably get flamed and accused of being blonde, but i'm desperate.

Okay, I have set OpenGL up in codewarrior 5 on a Win95 machine and a Win98 machine w/out any real problem. I try all the same tricks and kicks on a winME and it doesn't work.

It Compiles! It Links! I get the magical little DOS window and no little openGL window. (the program and project work dandy on my 98 machine). I have links to all the DLLs, libs and headers and the compiler doesn't fuss and I am in HighColor mode. Where have I gone wrong? Please feel free to flame me, as long as you help me!

Tearfully,
Kelly

[mikael_aronsson]

Hi !

I have no idea, the best would be if you could peek at the error codes and see if wglCreateContext or something else in the beginning returns an error code.

Mikael

[kellody]

the thing is there really isn't an error. I get an executable.. It's just useless. The program works fine on my win95 machine.

thanks
kellody

[mikael_aronsson]

Hi !

You said that it compiles and links fine, then you have the source code, just add some code to check for errors or use a debugger.

Look at wglCreateContext() and see what it returns. If it is null, then you can get the error code with errcode = GetLastError()

Mikael

[kellody]

Solved the problem. Pretty comical actually. Evidently Win ME (or perhaps it was just my wacky machine) hated Nat Robbins precompiled distribution of Glut. It did however like
http://opengl.gamedev.net/downloads.asp

the pre-compiled version found here. Darn I spent way too much precious time of my existence on this one. Thanks for all the help.

Feeling Blonde,
Kelly