[PD] GEM compile

[geiger]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Brad Kligerman wrote:
> > Anyhow, the gem configure should check for -lftgl_pic and if this
> > is not available use -lftgl, just like the tcl/tk stuff in pd does.
> >
> On my system it doesn't work like this and just _use_ -lftgl, so the build
> stops with the above error.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, it was meant as a reply to Johannes
stating how ftgl support would be intergrated correclty into Gem. I can
see that using "should" in this case is ambiguous. The workaround from
Johannes solves this problem too. I didn' t doubt it.

Günter


>
> > the simple solution to your problem is to edit the Make.config and
> > > change "-lftgl_pic" to "-lftgl"
> >
> So, despite Günter's doubts, I tried to change the Make.config. Gem got
> built, but when I try to load the library in PD, I get the following error>>
>
> /home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem.pd_linux:
> > /home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol:
> > glUniform4iARB
> > /home/kliger/cvs_20051128/Gem/src/Gem: can't load library
> >
>
> Oh well. When I have the time, I'll consider using Debian so that I have the
> same system as the Gem dev people. But until then, I need text rendering in
> Gem so I'll continue using my old Gem (but without gemlist_info which I've
> grown to like). So unless anyone has a brilliant idea, thanks anyway.
> /Brad.
>