Sludge Compilation failing on Ubuntu.

[Spummy]

I'm using the Ubuntu 10.10 debs on Ubuntu 9.10. Don't know why it didn't work for you.

Well then that's very very strange. Well. Xubuntu 10.04. But I doubt there's THAT much difference in the underlying system.

[BigMc]

Yeah it's really strange. Shouldn't make a difference that it's Xubuntu. I even know of another person using the debs without problems on Ubuntu 10.04.

But the graphics driver could still make the difference. I have an Intel graphics card. Could you please try installing the package nvidia-current-dev and then giving the debs another try?

[Spummy]

Well that did it. I've never had to install that for any other OpenGL stuff... Oh well. Thanks.

[BigMc]

Oh cool. It was a desperate last attempt. After suggesting it I looked what files are in that package and didn't find it very promising, but well...

[Trumgottist]

Since my last guess seemed to be right, I'll attempt to guess why things are behaving the way they are. (Again, my only knowledge is how these things work on Mac and Windows, but it should be similar.) It doesn't seem that strange to me.

What's happening is that the GLee you tried with first wasn't compiled to match your system. The missing functions that corresponds to the errors you got are only created by GLee if the OpenGL version is 1.2 or lower. GLee then uses these functions to make the functionality available anyway. The GLee you first tried was compiled on a computer with a higher version of OpenGL than you have so it didn't have those functions, while the GLee header wanted them because they're needed on your system. When you compiled GLee yourself, the functions were included. As BigMc says, a driver upgrade might make a difference if that changes what OpenGL version you have.

Edit: Indeed. While I was typing this, two new posts appeared (when I wrote the above, BigMc's post at 00:29 was the last one in this thread) that showed that a driver upgrade did make the difference.

[Spummy]

nvidia-current-dev isn't actually an upgrade. Just header files. I was already using OpenGL 3.3.0.

[Trumgottist]

In that case, the header files were probably needed to let your compiler know that you have OpenGL 3.

[Spummy]

Alrighty then. Well, thanks for all the help! Now to try some sludge games!