No OpenGL 3 headers in Arch Linux
I'm trying to compile a very simple “Hello world” OpenGL 3.3 program using FreeGLUT. In all the tutorials I found, they include an header “gl3.h”. The problem is, I don't have such header file.
$ ls -l /usr/include/GL/
total 2164
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8797 20 janv. 17:44 freeglut_ext.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 681 20 janv. 17:44 freeglut.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26181 20 janv. 17:44 freeglut_std.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 837247 27 janv. 12:55 glew.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656589 21 mars 18:07 glext.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84468 21 mars 18:07 gl.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128943 21 mars 18:07 gl_mangle.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17255 21 mars 18:07 glu.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3315 21 mars 18:07 glu_mangle.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 639 20 janv. 17:44 glut.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62741 27 janv. 12:55 glxew.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43887 21 mars 18:07 glxext.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17170 21 mars 18:07 glx.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4706 3 févr. 13:33 glxint.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3463 21 mars 18:07 glx_mangle.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2086 3 févr. 13:33 glxmd.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80979 3 févr. 13:33 glxproto.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11246 3 févr. 13:33 glxtokens.h
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 14 avril 14:03 internal
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8497 21 mars 18:07 osmesa.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51274 21 mars 18:07 vms_x_fix.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59403 27 janv. 12:55 wglew.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41377 21 mars 18:07 wglext.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4468 21 mars 18:07 wmesa.h
In /usr/include/ I only have GL , GLES and GLES2 . There is no GL3 as I found in some tutorials.
I'm running on Arch Linux x86_64 with a NVIDIA graphic card ( nvidia closed-source driver).
Here is how I included OpenGL and FreeGLUT APIs in my program:
#define GL3_PROTOTYPES 1
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/freeglut.h>
But the code doesn't compile:
$ g++ -pipe -g -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -I. -IHeaders -c Sources/Main.cpp -o Temp/Objects/Main.o
Sources/Main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
Sources/Main.cpp:107:59: error: ‘glVertexAttribPointer’ was not declared in this scope
Sources/Main.cpp:108:30: error: ‘glEnableVertexAttribArray’ was not declared in this scope
Sources/Main.cpp:114:35: error: ‘glUseProgram’ was not declared in this scope
Sources/Main.cpp:138:31: error: ‘glDisableVertexAttribArray’ was not declared in this scope
It seems I included the OpenGL 2 headers! But, again, I didn't find any OpenGL 3 headers on my system, I looked at the Arch repository and AUR, unsuccessfully.
Thank you for your help!
You don't need a GL3.h, the GL3.h just got rid of all deprecated features. So just include gl.h instead of gl3.h . Downloading and manually copyieng into /usr/include/GL/ is not a real solution, it works yes, but what happens if the add to the mesa package the gl3.h ? You're package manager will find conflicts. Better you add the gl3.h to your project or into your home directory and add it to the $PATh or use the -I flag.
If you grep for glVertexAttribPointer, glEnableVertexAttribArray, glUseProgram and glDisableVertexAttribArray, you will find that they are included in glext.h and glew.h . Try to include one of these headers and compile again.