thanks, this worked for me!! although I had to change my lua code; what was glColor3d(r,g,b) before is now gl.Color(r,g,b). just out of curiosity, do I ever need the library luaglut?
You would need luaglut if you were not using GEM, but rather build
your standalone OpenGL app.
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