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Subject: Re: openglada build problem.
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On Sunday, July 27, 2014 3:36:18 PM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 7/27/2014 5:13 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
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> > It is a shame that the openglada demo programs depend on other
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> > libraries.
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> >
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> > http://flyx.github.io/OpenGLAda/ (just above the "Getting the Code"
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> > heading) has links to GLFW, SOIL snd FTGL.At least
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> > http://www.glfw.org/download.html contains links to Windows binaries.
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> >
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> 
> A static build version could be provided, so user do not have to install
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> many other things to make the demo program even run. This is what I did with
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> the Fortran openGL. Yes, the demos are much larger in size now, but
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> it is only one file. Download and run. It includes inside it all
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> the libraries needed linked in statically.
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> 
> Having to download many other libraries just to see a demo program,
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> will discourage people from even trying it.
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> 
> 
> --Nasser

well said, nasser.
I like learning ada, a lot. but this whole patchwork of getting anything to work is very discouraging.
delphi/pascal and opengl isn't much better, as I've found.