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in thread Daunting Problem With Perl Opengl Lighting

How does POGL relate to OpenGL and GLUT?

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Re^4: Win32 - gl/glu.h problem
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 20, 2008 at 09:10 UTC
    How does POGL relate to OpenGL and GLUT?

    The current version of OpenGL on CPAN is 0.56. POGL will (very shortly) become OpenGL-0.57 on CPAN.

    It uses freeglut instead of glut. I think there's a view that freeglut is being better maintained than glut ... and I think (but I'm not sure) that's the reason for the change.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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Re^4: Win32 - gl/glu.h problem
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2008 at 08:43 UTC 
          ppm install http://graphcomp.com/opengl/ppm58/OpenGL.ppd
      ppm install http://graphcomp.com/opengl/ppm58/OpenGL-Image.ppd
      ppm install http://graphcomp.com/opengl/ppm58/OpenGL-Shader.ppd

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        Like I say, ppm just breaks

        That's interesting. I installed that ppm onto one of my perls - but I was using the PPM that's on CPAN, not ActiveState's PPM utility. Try using this as your ppd file instead: 
        <SOFTPKG NAME="OpenGL" VERSION="0,56,04,0">
    <TITLE>OpenGL</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>Perl binding for OpenGL</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR>Bob "grafman" Free</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
        <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
        <CODEBASE HREF="http://graphcomp.com/opengl/ppm58/OpenGL-0.56_
+04.tar.gz" />
        <PROVIDE NAME="OpenGL" VERSION="0.56_04" />
    </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

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        It contains <PROVIDE NAME>, the absence of which may (or may not) be the cause of the problem you're having.

        Update: Hmmm ... I don't think that will help. I just tried installing via (ActiveState's) ppm on ActivePerl build 822 and it worked fine for me. I used the same command (and hence PPD file as you did): 
        ppm install http://graphcomp.com/opengl/ppm58/OpenGL.ppd

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        Cheers,
        Rob
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