I have a windows build environment using cygwin and GCC, and am linking to the libraries for GLEE, GLUT, and opengl32. This is a Win32 build.
All calls to glCreateShader are returning 0, yet I'm not picking up any errors. The following is based on the Lighthouse tutorials for GLUT and GLSL, so the sequence of GL operations should be correct.
Here's the relevant code..
#define WIN32
#include <stdio.h>
#include <GL/GLee.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>
#include "SampleUtils.h"
#include "LineShaders.h"
GLint lineVertexHandle = 0;
unsigned int lineShaderProgramID;
...
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
// init GLUT and create window
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_RGBA);
glutInitWindowPosition(100,100);
glutInitWindowSize(320,320);
glutCreateWindow("Lighthouse3D Tutorials");
// register callbacks
glutDisplayFunc(renderScene);
glutReshapeFunc(changeSize);
glutIdleFunc(renderScene);
// initialize the shaders
init();
// enter GLUT event processing cycle
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}
void init() {
glClearColor( 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 ); /* Set the clear color */
lineShaderProgramID = SampleUtils::createProgramFromBuffer(lineMeshVertexShader,lineFragmentShader);
lineVertexHandle = glGetAttribLocation(lineShaderProgramID,"vertexPosition");
}
SampleUtils is a utility class w/ the following methods for shader handling. The shaders lineMeshVertexShader and lineFragmentShader are defined in LineShaders.h.
unsigned int SampleUtils::createProgramFromBuffer(const char* vertexShaderBuffer, const char* fragmentShaderBuffer) {
checkGlError("cPFB");
// scroll down for initShader() - we never get past this point.
GLuint vertexShader = initShader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER, vertexShaderBuffer);
if (!vertexShader)
return 0;
GLuint fragmentShader = initShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER,
fragmentShaderBuffer);
if (!fragmentShader)
return 0;
GLuint program = glCreateProgram();
if (program)
{
glAttachShader(program, vertexShader);
checkGlError("glAttachShader");
glAttachShader(program, fragmentShader);
checkGlError("glAttachShader");
glLinkProgram(program);
GLint linkStatus = GL_FALSE;
glGetProgramiv(program, GL_LINK_STATUS, &linkStatus);
if (linkStatus != GL_TRUE)
{
GLint bufLength = 0;
glGetProgramiv(program, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &bufLength);
if (bufLength)
{
char* buf = (char*) malloc(bufLength);
if (buf)
{
glGetProgramInfoLog(program, bufLength, NULL, buf);
LOG("Could not link program: %s", buf);
free(buf);
}
}
glDeleteProgram(program);
program = 0;
}
}
return program;
}
unsigned int
SampleUtils::initShader(unsigned int shaderType, const char* source)
{
checkGlError("initShader");
//GLuint shader = glCreateShader((GLenum)shaderType);
/* trying explicit enum, just in case - shader is still always 0 */
GLuint shader = glCreateShader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER);
LOG("SHADER %i", shader);
if (shader)
{
glShaderSource(shader, 1, &source, NULL);
glCompileShader(shader);
GLint compiled = 0;
glGetShaderiv(shader, GL_COMPILE_STATUS, &compiled);
if (!compiled)
{
GLint infoLen = 0;
glGetShaderiv(shader, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &infoLen);
if (infoLen)
{
char* buf = (char*) malloc(infoLen);
if (buf)
{
glGetShaderInfoLog(shader, infoLen, NULL, buf);
LOG("Could not compile shader %d: %s",
shaderType, buf);
free(buf);
}
glDeleteShader(shader);
shader = 0;
}
}
}
return shader;
}
void SampleUtils::checkGlError(const char* operation) {
for (GLint error = glGetError(); error; error = glGetError())
LOG("after %s() glError (0x%x)", operation, error);
}
I'm wondering if the context isn't fully initialized when glCreateShader is called. But I've tried calling init() within the callbacks as well, with no effect. My searches on this issue have turned up the advice to build a known-good example, to confirm the availability of glCreateShader - if anyone has one for C++, pls advise.
UPDATE:
Based on the feedback here I'd checked my OpenGL support using the glewinfo utility and it's reporting that this system is limited to 1.1. - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LauILzvvxgsT3G2KdRXDTOG7163jpEuwtyno_Y2Ck78/edit?hl=en_US
e.g.
---------------------------
GLEW Extension Info
---------------------------
GLEW version 1.6.0
Reporting capabilities of pixelformat 2
Running on a GDI Generic from Microsoft Corporation
OpenGL version 1.1.0 is supported
GL_VERSION_1_1: OK
---------------
GL_VERSION_1_2: MISSING
---------------
etc.
What's strange is that with GLEE I was able to compile these extensions, though they apparently don't work. I've checked my gl.h and glext.h header files and they are current - the extensions are there. So how is this dealt with on Windows? How do you set up and link your environment so that you can develop w/ more than 1.1 using cygwin and Eclipse?
