Using OpenGL, GLUT, and GLUI at home

OpenGL, GLUT, and GLUI

OpenGL is the pre-eminent graphics library available today. GLUT (Graphics Library Utility Toolkit) provides a simplified, portable API. In this course, we will use them only in very basic ways to support you in writing your graphics code. Writing interfaces is helped with GLUI, which is built on top of GLUT.

For your interest, click here for some online OpenGL manual pages.

Using GLUT: GLUT API Version 3
Getting GLUT on your home PC:
- Get OpenGL 1.1 for Windows 95 from Microsoft. You can download it as a self-extracting archive from their ftp server. After you extract the files, place them in the proper directories.
- Get GLUT for Win32. If you have Developer Studio/Visual C++, you should be able to just install the DLL's, etc. If you have Borland, you will need to do a bit more work.
Compiling the sample program:
- get a copy of the source zoomdino.c [click here] (and cut and paste into your own file).
- setup the Visual C++ environment and compile it (subtle things may be different this year with Visual C++ v6.0)
Getting GLUI:
- refer to the GLUI home page for source, library, and documentation (I believe our current version is 1.01).
- there are also copies of the manual in CSIL.
- here's a sample GLUI program from last semester.

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Dr. Daryl Hepting for creating this page.

Last modified: September 2000

Kori Inkpen / inkpen@cs.sfu.ca