OpenGL resources for CS4451 and CS6491
Links and manuals
Downloading GLUT (provided by
Ignacio Llamas)
GLUT is not included in regular installations
of Visual Studio/C++. So you have to download it and install it
manually.
You can easily find it with Google. Look for "GLUT Download". Then
search
for the zip file containing the binary version of glut 3.7 for Windows.
Extract the files to the directories as especified in the text file
included
in that zip file. The paths may vary.
If it is a CoC machine where you have no write permissions you may need
to install glut locally. Usually you can get away by copying the
glut32.lib and glut.h files to the directory where you have the code.
Although the
standard location for glut.h is in a subdirectory called GL/ of any
directory
in the list of path to search for header files (capital letters matter
in
Unix/Linux systems). If you cannot copy the dll to the system32
subdirectory
of your Windows directory you will need a copy of it wherever the
compiled
executable is executed.
The page http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2002/cs4451a_summer/wingl.html
contains more details. Although it does not tell you about the
possibility of installing locally in case that you have no permissions.
Getting software and compliers (provided
by Ignacio Llamas)
Each student registered for class is given access to various software
through MSDN Academic Alliance. This includes
- Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0,
- Visual Studio .NET
- Visual Studio .NET 2003.
The link to download software, taken from CNS website:
http://msdn07.e-academy.com/gatech_comp/
Students need to use their gt e-mail address as login (ie.: mail
@prism.gatech.edu or @mail.gatech.edu I believe).
The accounts should be activated at the end of the registration period.