On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Thomas Grill wrote:

Hi GEM maintainers,

i have had some trouble compiling GEM from cvs for Windows (with VC7):

• i had to change all occurences of GL_BGRA or GL_BGR to GL_BGRA_EXT and

GL_BGR_EXT, respectively (i hope that's exactly the same....)

this is really strange. Seems to be a OpenGL thing, but i can not imagine that why this change was done on windows OpenGL implementation.

• in text2d.h the GLTTPixmapFont is defined in the class, but the header

file "GLTTPixmapFont.h" is only included for linux and OSX. There doesn't seem to be a necessity for that. (and why is FTGL defined for other platforms but for Windows it is GLTT?)

Because gem moved to FTGL recently, the windows part has not been worked on yet.

• the particle and pspray projects have absolute file positions which makes

them practically unusable

this is in gemlibs ? the particle library is now included in gem/src/Particle. No need to compile that anymore.

• in pspray.cpp, line 139 the pow function is neither float, nor double

precision... it's necessary to make the constant 0.3333f

I think pspray is a demo for partlib and has nothing to do with gem. So you can ignore it.

• there's an interesting warning for glm.c, line 1485 that model->texcoords

is of type GLfloat *, which can't easily be printed as an integer.... (should that be numtexcoords?)

the most important problem is that some of the FT*.c of the GLTT 2.5.2 distribution don't seem to match to their corresponding FT*.h files. They also have different dates. Which GLTT version is typically used with GEM?

On my system it says 2.5.

Greetings,

Guenter