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Re: Watcom C++ and OpenGL

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From: Claus Brod
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:38
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Mikko Kiviranta wrote: 
>   I tried building the sample program from the WinNT SDK online
> documentation (a sample ported from X-Windows) but I got a
> lot of "undefined symbol" errors from the linker. The header
> files gl.h, glu.h and glaux.h are where they belong but in the
> libraries directory there are only glu32.lib and glaux.lib. Am I
> missing a library file corresponding to gl.h? If so where do I get
> one?
> 
>   All the error messages referred to symbol names beginning with
> "gl" or "wgl" (like wglCreateContext or glPushMatrix) which fact
> supports the missing-library theory.

The library you're looking for is opengl32.lib. I'm using Visual C++
right now, and it comes with this library. I also found a DLL version
of this library in my WINNT32\system32 directory.

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Subject: Re: Watcom C++ and OpenGL
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:38:28 +0100
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