Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!jdchrist
From: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 4d 20-> 4d80gt porting bug
Keywords: Intra 4D family port, 4d binary compatability
Message-ID: <11275@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 89 03:42:21 GMT
References: <8710@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <41032@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Organization: Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo
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In article <41032@sgi.sgi.com> ciemo@bananapc.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
>In article <8710@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, piplani@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Michael Piplani) writes:
>> Any ideas?  It just occured to me that we didn't use the shared 
>> graphics libraries (just linked with good ole' -Zg), could this be the
>> problem?
>> 
>
>It is definitely the problem.  You should be linking with the shared GL.
>-Zg is maintained for backward compatibility.  Instead, link your program
>with "-lgl_s".  Besides providing a binary compatibility, linking to the
>shared library will also reduce the size of your executable since it won't
>have its own copies of the GL routines.

I think you need to use "-lgl_s -lm" because the gl library uses some
math routines like sin and cos.

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Dan Christensen, Computer Graphics Lab,	         jdchrist@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.	         jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu