[Paraview] help w/ glXGetProcAddressARB not declared

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Stefan,

My guess is that another glx.h somewhere else on your system is being included before or instead of the Mesa version.  You may want to check the compiler flags in the make files to see if that is the case.

The ParaView/VTK/Rendering/CMakeLists.txt has a check to see if the glXGetProcAddressARB prototype exists in gl.h or glx.h.  The CMake test appears to be using the right include files (and identifying that the prototype exists) whereas the actual compile is using the wrong include files.

For a quick workaround, try this.  Edit your CMakeCache.txt file and change the entry for VTK_GLX_GET_PROC_ADDRESS_ARB_PROTOTYPE_EXISTS from TRUE to FALSE.  Make sure you leave VTK_GLX_GET_PROC_ADDRESS_ARB_PROTOTYPE_EXISTS_TESTED to 1.

-Ken

   ****      Kenneth Moreland
    ***      Sandia National Laboratories
***********  
*** *** ***  email: kmorel at sandia.gov
**  ***  **  phone: (505) 844-8919
    ***      fax:   (505) 845-0833
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stefan Friedel
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:31 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] help w/ glXGetProcAddressARB not declared
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I want to compile Paraview for a cluster - based on an old 
> debian/woody; linux kernel 2.4.31, gcc/g++ 3.3.5 and mpich 
> (gm/Myri). We want to use off-screen rendering. I tried to 
> use the  debian stable mesa libs (some 4.x) and also the 
> current mesa release 6.4.1 from www.mesa3d.org - but I always 
> get a compiler error after a while, saying:
> 
> #############################
> [...]
> Building object file vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.o...
> /home/thor2/sfriedel/SOFTWARE/paraview/paraview-2.4.2/VTK/Rend
> ering/vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.cxx: In
>    member function `virtual void (*
>    vtkOpenGLExtensionManager::GetProcAddress(const char*))()':
> /home/thor2/sfriedel/SOFTWARE/paraview/paraview-2.4.2/VTK/Rend
> ering/vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.cxx:195: error: `
>    glXGetProcAddressARB' undeclared (first use this function)
> /home/thor2/sfriedel/SOFTWARE/paraview/paraview-2.4.2/VTK/Rend
> ering/vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.cxx:195: error: (Each
>    undeclared identifier is reported only once for each 
> function it appears
>    in.)
> make[5]: *** [vtkOpenGLExtensionManager.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [default_target] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [default_target_Rendering] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [default_target] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [default_target_VTK] Error 2
> make: *** [default_target] Error 2
> 
> #############################
> 
> But in glx.h:
> 
> #############################
> [...]
> extern void (*glXGetProcAddressARB(const GLubyte 
> *procName))(); [...] #############################
> 
> Is there a general problem when using mesa? Do I need another 
> OpenGL implementation? I found some hints to replace the 
> glx.h header from mesa with the one from eg. NVIDIAs binary 
> driver, any experiences with that  -  or any other hints? 
> 
> Thanks+Regards, Stefan Friedel
> --
> Zentrale Dienste - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für 
> Wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universität Heidelberg - IWR - 
> INF 368, 69120 Heidelberg 
> stefan.friedel at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de  Tel +49 6221 54-8240 Fax -5224
> IWR: www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de          HELICS: www.helics.uni-hd.de
>