Until recently and to my surprise I realised why all game compnaies, IHVs, and many other related applications are not targeted for linux. I wanted to port a demo I'm working on using OpenGL and OpenAL, and the code is very standard and simple C++ code...pretty portable. It runs just perfect in Windows. After a long long and hard time struggling to fix some compile-time errors and ugly warnings result from library specifications...include directories...trouble with Makefile...and adding more stanadard C headers...anyway...I could not compile the source with GCC since it was not willing to recognize void type and only in one module...the error was as stupid as "anonymous/incomplete type...," whereas it works with other modules. anyway again...I switched to latest free Intel C++ compiler, and it just worked fine...I could link the program and....run it. To my astonishment it worked fine...the sound was ok...not the same quality of Windows or not even close to, both ports use the same module and API though. Now the problem was with OpenGL, it renders with no texturing why? I have no clue guys...and it uses a simple texturing, it was giving an error bad enumeration, and the drivers are supposed to be the latest, even much recent and updated than he Windows ones. I tried to run the glDebugger, and it was not able to lunch it or even the demos that comes with it. Now tell me guys why and how does linux relate to gaming? I would rather consider it as only-text-mode alternative to run at the backend for serving...and wishing it will never behave weirdo..it does not crash I agree but it gives unreliable and unstable results... Feedback please.

So, there are bugs in your program, but you have given us no method to help you solve them. I can virtually guarantee there is not a problem with your OpenGL implementation's texturing and GCC is merely being pedantic.

Is it possible for you to post a minimal recreation of the problem code and the error that GCC is reporting? If you can pin down the OpenGL function call that triggers the bad enumeration error, it would be much easier to tell you exactly what it meant. I can't say I've heard of glDebugger much less used it myself, so unfortunately I can't give you any tips to making it work.

As I said the code is portable, and it works just fine in Windows. It did compile under Lunix and I ran it but with no texturing while still using the same OpenGL code. Is OpenGL texturing under linux has a special consideration or any thing to do before get it to work?

I use both OpenGL and OpenAL daily on linux. I have never had any linux-specific issues with OpenGL, and OpenAL performs and behaves better on linux than upon windows for me. I have had OpenAL code run flawlessly on (multile installations of) Linux, and fail in 3 different ways on 3 different windows boxes.

I think you just are doing things wrong in ways that happen to work with the windows drivers, but don't with the linux drivers.

I don't think so...Windows drivers are very capable to say the least. And things should be the same for both. I'm using GLUT, pretty portable.

Posting code would not be a good idea since there are several large modules involved, not to mention the non-OpenGL code.

Maybe my installation is broken. Cause I have issues running Maya 8, it just cashes upon start. gDebugger does not function at all. Some games run fine and others crash the whole system. Give me a break...stability? reliability?

BTW my linux distro is OpenSUSE 10.3

Help appreciated.

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Windows drivers are very capable to say the least.

That really depends on who made them.

Make sure that everything is set up right, and (since it's a big issue with *unix), make sure you have a flawless OpenGL system with hardware acceleration.

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glxinfo | grep rendering

Should tell if you do.

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It does show the ATI GL drivers, 2.1, with all extensions supported.

Could be that I link statically to GL functions? I'm not loading the extensions using GetProcAddress or dlsym.

Quote:I'm not loading the extensions using GetProcAddress or dlsym.

It's a bad idea. Try to use glew or something other.

There is a lot of debugging tools, use them. Bugle is capable to catch every GL-error, launch your program with it (something like "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libbugle.so" gldb ./your_program", if you have bugle installed).

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I wanted to port a demo I'm working on using OpenGL and OpenAL, and the code is very standard and simple C++ code...pretty portable. It runs just perfect in Windows.

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After a long long and hard time struggling to fix some compile-time errors and ugly warnings result from library specifications...include directories.

I guess it wasnt as portable and perfect as you thought..

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..trouble with Makefile...

Oh, yes.. The companys exclude millions of people becouse the makefiles are so hard...

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I could not compile the source with GCC

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I switched to latest free Intel C++ compiler, and it just worked fine...

Maybe becouse its a c++ program and GCC is a C compiler?

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To my astonishment it worked fine...the sound was ok...not the same quality of Windows or not even close to, both ports use the same module and API though.

This could be create by any number of bugs, yet you provide us with no code...

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Now the problem was with OpenGL, it renders with no texturing why? I have no clue guys...and it uses a simple texturing, it was giving an error bad enumeration, and the drivers are supposed to be the latest, even much recent and updated than he Windows ones.

Bad Enumeration = error, so your judging your expericenses based off poorly programed code.. Also did you make sure you have 3d rendering enabled?

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Now tell me guys why and how does linux relate to gaming? I would rather consider it as only-text-mode alternative to run at the backend for serving...and wishing it will never behave weirdo..it does not crash I agree but it gives unreliable and unstable results...

How long did you spend on linux before coming to this conclusion? And how many poorly coded apps did you run before deciding that linux is complete crap and it should only be used for backend...

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Feedback please.