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Opengl Installation Steps

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to install OpenGL on a Linux Mint operating system, including necessary library installations and verification of OpenGL functionality. It also outlines the creation of a simple OpenGL program, detailing the commands to set up a directory and write source code. Finally, it explains how to compile and run the OpenGL application using specific commands in the terminal.

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Opengl Installation Steps

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to install OpenGL on a Linux Mint operating system, including necessary library installations and verification of OpenGL functionality. It also outlines the creation of a simple OpenGL program, detailing the commands to set up a directory and write source code. Finally, it explains how to compile and run the OpenGL application using specific commands in the terminal.

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How to Install OpenGL on Linux

Part-1 Prepare your Linux Mint operating system for OpenGL Development
1 Open a terminal and enter the following commands to install the necessary
libraries for OpenGL development:
Type/Copy/Paste following commands:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3
$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
$ sudo apt-get install binutils-gold
$ sudo apt-get install g++ cmake
$ sudo apt-get install libglew-dev
$ sudo apt-get install g++
$ sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ sudo apt-get install libglew1.5-dev libglm-dev

2 Get information about the OpenGL and GLX implementations running or not?

$ glxinfo | grep -i opengl

Your will get follwoing information : ( It Means OpenGL Installed )


OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8800 GT/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.44
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
OpenGL extensions:

Part-2 Create your first OpenGL program

To create an OpenGL program, open up a terminal, make a directory, change


into the directory and use text editor such as gedit to create your OpenGL
source code.
Enter the following commands below.
 Type/Copy/Paste:
$ mkdir Sample-OpenGL-Programs
(This will create a directory to hold your OpenGL programs)
 Type/Copy/Paste:
$ cd Sample-OpenGL-Programs
(This will change you into your directory)
 Type/Copy/Paste:
$ gedit main.c
Copy and paste OR Type the code :

1. #include <GL/freeglut.h>
2. #include <GL/gl.h>
3.
4. void renderFunction()
5. {
6. glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
7. glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
8. glColor3f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
9. glOrtho(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0);
10. glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
11. glVertex2f(-0.5, -0.5);
12. glVertex2f(-0.5, 0.5);

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13. glVertex2f(0.5, 0.5);
14. glVertex2f(0.5, -0.5);
15. glEnd();
16. glFlush();
17. }
18. int main(int argc, char** argv)
19. {
20. glutInit(&argc, argv);
21. glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE);
22. glutInitWindowSize(500,500);
23. glutInitWindowPosition(100,100);
24. glutCreateWindow("OpenGL - First window demo");
25. glutDisplayFunc(renderFunction);
26. glutMainLoop();
27. return 0;
28. }

 Save the file and exit

Part-3 Compile and Run your OpenGL application

1 This command will compile and link your OpenGL libraries.


$ g++ main.c -lglut -lGL -lGLEW -lGLU -o OpenGLExample

2 In order to run the program type the following below:


$ ./OpenGLExample

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