What to do under linux

Hello everyone, here is my situation:

I am trying to get OpenGL to work under debian 2.2 with no windowing environment. What do I do? Sorry for such non specific question. I dont know where else to start. Do I need a windowing environment or an X server? Also, where are the header files for gl, glut, and glx? Can somebody point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Im not aware of any opengl lib that does not rely on XWindow, so you should have to install an X server first.
The next step depends on either you want/can use a specific opengl implemented to speed things up for your video card, or if you prefer to use MESA.
Whatever, the header files for gl will be with this opengl lib.
the glx header files comes with XFree 4 or solely from the glx group ( http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/ ).
glu and glut’s header files comes with glu & glut, which are available with MESA or individualy.

To play arround with opengl, you do not need glu nor glut, anyway. SDL is another fine possibility. GLX alone can also do the work, but is not portable as SDL or GLUT are.

good luck !

(apt-get install mesa should achieve 90% of the work, anyway)

actually, im pretty sure there is a project called the linux “accelerated frame buffer” or some such. try that. of course, it wont be accelerated if you have an nvidia card, since the open source nvidia drivers dont support hardware acceleration…

ok, my mistake, its calle “directFB” and its located at http://www.directfb.org

hope that helps…

Dear Linux users. I have a student of computer science major. I have finish a project of computer graphics call 3D math plotter. If you would like to try. please go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mathdev/
The program enable linuxers to plot f(x,y)=sin(y-x) using Mesa 3D. It can remedy the defect of GNUPlot which is only 2D.

Thanks, everyone. That helps alot. That gives me some direction to on.

Originally posted by djbuzzkill:
[b]Hello everyone, here is my situation:

I am trying to get OpenGL to work under debian 2.2 with no windowing environment. What do I do? Sorry for such non specific question. I dont know where else to start. Do I need a windowing environment or an X server? Also, where are the header files for gl, glut, and glx? Can somebody point me in the right direction? Thank you.[/b]

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