August 2012 - cl-opengl-devel - mailman3.common-lisp.net

[cl-opengl-devel] cl-glut not able to open windows until shown how by lispbuilder-sdl
by Zach Hall 07 Aug '12

07 Aug '12

Hi everyone, I'm having a weird problem with cl-glut. When I run something using glut to produce a window, I don't get a window. Inserting a swank-handler into the loop of the examples, I determined that they WERE running, they just weren't giving me a window. I'm using Windows 7, Clozure-CL and I have FreeGlut loaded and detected properly. Everything works, except that the window doesn't show. So! I decided to try Lispbuilder-SDL, I loaded up their examples and they are able to successfully open windows. What's really odd about this, is that AFTER I've created a window using Lispbuilder, it seems to show Glut what to do, and Glut can suddenly open display windows properly. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

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Re: [cl-opengl-devel] How to install/run the demo code? Successful.
by John Crawford 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

> You need FreeGLUT rather than classic GLUT. Thanks, that was the last piece of the puzzle. For the record, the entire set of steps I went through was: File->Load-> C:\Lisp\Tools\quicklisp.lisp - only needs to be done once. or CL-USER 1 : 1 > (load #p"C:/Lisp/Tools/quicklisp.lisp") CL-USER 1 : 1 > (quicklisp-quickstart:install) - only needs to be done once. CL-USER 2 > (load #p"c:/documents and settings/username/quicklisp/setup.lisp") needs to be done every time in LispWorks Personal Edition, which doesn't support init files. CL-USER 3 : 1 > (ql:quickload :cl-opengl) CL-USER 4 : 1 > (ql:quickload :cl-glut-examples) CL-USER 5 : 1 > (cl-glut-examples:list-examples) CL-USER 6 : 1 > (cl-glut-examples:gears)

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Re: [cl-opengl-devel] How to install/run the demo code?
by John Crawford 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Well, to partially answer my own question :) I was thinking that quicklisp downloaded everything it need, not realizing that GLUT is a separate library. I found a Windows binary glut32.dll here: http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/ However - their installation instructions consist of copying the glut32.dll to C:\windows\system32. Which I did. But how do I tell Lispworks to *find* that dll? Thanks again. John C>

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Re: [cl-opengl-devel] How to install/run the demo code?
by John Crawford 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Thanks for the replies, I'm making progress. However, it still isn't loading, and I'm not sure if it's a missing library, or maybe miscompiled, or what. The steps I've done so far are: (quicklisp-quickstart:install) - worked (ql:quickload "cl-opengl") - worked (ql:quickload :cl-glut-examples) - fails with this output: ====================== CL-USER 6 > (ql:quickload :cl-glut-examples) To load "cl-glut-examples": Load 1 ASDF system: cl-glut-examples ; Loading "cl-glut-examples" Error: Unable to load foreign library (GLUT). Could not register handle for external module GLUT: The specified module could not be found.. ==================== Yet everything *looks* like it's there: CL-GLUT 26 : 2 > (ql:system-apropos "glu" + "cffi" + "opengl") #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cl-glfw-glu / cl-glfw-20120703-git / quicklisp 2012-07-03> #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cl-glu / cl-opengl-20120520-git / quicklisp 2012-07-03> #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cl-glut / cl-opengl-20120520-git / quicklisp 2012-07-03> #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cl-glut-examples / cl-opengl-20120520-git / quicklisp 2012-07-03> #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cffi / cffi_0.10.7.1 / quicklisp 2012-07-03> #<QL-DIST:SYSTEM cl-opengl / cl-opengl-20120520-git / quicklisp 2012-07-03> Any ideas on while it's failing to load? Thanks. John C>

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[cl-opengl-devel] Fwd: How to install/run the demo code?
by Luís Oliveira 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

(ups. Also forgot to Cc the list.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Luís Oliveira <luismbo(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [cl-opengl-devel] How to install/run the demo code? To: John Crawford <cyclops(a)speakeasy.net> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM, John Crawford <cyclops(a)speakeasy.net> wrote: > How do I install and run the demo code? I'm running Lispworks PE 6.01 on > Windows, I've installed quicklisp and ran: (ql:quickload "cl-opengl") which > seemed to download the library. But so far I haven't managed to run the demo > examples. Thanks. (ql:quickload "cl-glut-examples") loads the examples. (cl-glut-examples:list-examples) lists the available examples which you can run individually. There's also a run-examples function which runs all examples simultaneously. HTH, -- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis/ -- Luís Oliveira http://r42.eu/~luis/

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[cl-opengl-devel] How to install/run the demo code?
by John Crawford 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

How do I install and run the demo code? I'm running Lispworks PE 6.01 on Windows, I've installed quicklisp and ran: (ql:quickload "cl-opengl") which seemed to download the library. But so far I haven't managed to run the demo examples. Thanks. John C>

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[cl-opengl-devel] Documentation status?
by John Crawford 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Looking back through the archives, I see a post in 2010 about the documentation not yet having created. Is that still the case? If it *does* exist (or can be created), how/where would it be? Thanks. John C>

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