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Re: problem with cygwin and GLUT on Vista
- From: Greg Chicares <gchicares at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:03:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: problem with cygwin and GLUT on Vista
- References: <491302AC.3010600@etsmtl.ca>
On 2008-11-06 14:43Z, Michael McGuffin wrote:
[interference from non-Cygwin dll]
> So I temporarily renamed the
> glut32.dll under system32 to "disable" it, and ran "cygcheck ./main.exe"
> again, and found that now it was finding C:\cygwin\bin\glut32.dll . Now
> my program works fine, and so do my other OpenGL+GLUT programs. I don't
> recall this interference between glut dll files being a problem on MS
> Windows XP.
Perhaps you had a different $PATH. If renaming the dll in the
system directory causes problems with non-Cygwin programs and
you need to undo that workaround, then try putting /cygwin/bin/
before the msw system directory in $PATH when you run the
Cygwin glut program.
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