GL/glfw.h does not exist - c++

I'm using Fedora 17 and compiling cocos2d-x. I've got an error at the compilation when I'm launching ./make-all-linux-project.sh.
G++ tells me that GL/glfw.h does not exist and then I yum install glew but it wasn't solved. So how can I solve this?

The package glew is actually the OpenGL Extension Wrangler. In this case your error is referring to a different package - GLFW. The problem with the build script you are trying to run is that it was made for deb-based systems, not rpm-based systems like Fedora. What's going to make this more difficult is that if you use YUM to download glfw and glfw-devel, they are not the version Cocos2d-x needs, so the build will fail. What you will need to do is first download a legacy version of glfw from Git Hub and build it from source.
git clone https://github.com/glfw/glfw-legacy.git
Once you build this package, you will need to modify the Cocos2d-x make file: $COCOS_ROOT/cocos2dx/proj.linux/cocos2dx.mk to include the legacy headers and also link to the legacy lib. The build should go smoothly after this, assuming all of your other dependencies are installed. You can refer to a blog post I put together for the detailed instructions: http://voidfuture.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/building-cocos2d-x-on-rhel-fedora-centos-linux/

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vcpkg setup errors on command line

I am trying to compile dlib 19.4 using the vcpkg tool
since I am having trouble compiling CMAKE and working with Boost.Python
to fix compiler issues for dlib.
Though I am having problems even running the basic steps
to get the vcpkg package to work:
(I also downloaded Visual Studio 2017 for this tool)
Looking at executed command (git init), you initialized empty git repository for vcpkg - that is likely wrong. This bootstrap.ps1 script fails internally when trying to fetch existing revisions. vcpkg doesn't want to reside in just any git repository, it wants "its" git repository. vcpkg uses git as a distribution platform and later to perform updates.
So instead, you should clone vcpkg repository to some directory, e.g.:
C:\test>git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git vcpkg_test
Cloning into 'vcpkg_test'...
...
Checking out files: 100% (876/876), done.
C:\test>cd vcpkg_test
C:\test\vcpkg_test>powershell -exec bypass scripts\bootstrap.ps1
https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/
Additionally I see errors regarding VS2017 C++ support. VS2017 is an IDE with multiple optionally supported languages (i.e. you could have only C# support installed). Please make sure you have "Desktop development with C++" workload installed - as vcpkg is for C++. You can update the installation at any time by running installer again (Modify).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/install-visual-studio

Qt - How to deploy application dynamically on Linux?

I have an application that I built using Qt Creator on Linux and want to deploy it now. However, I don't want to statically build it as I don't want it to be open-sourced. I tried the ldd ./YourExecutable command, however that only lists (and not add) the additional dependencies the application needs in order for it to run. My question is, how do I gather the necessary dependencies without having to individually look for these files? Is there a tool, such as windeployqt.exe on Windows, that I can use on Linux for the same purpose? Or is there a better approach than the one I'm thinking of?
Get Cygwin setup.exe: http://www.cygwin.com/
1.1. Run setup.exe and continue to package selection list.
1.2. Under Devel catagory select tools you need for compiling your source. For
example 'GNU make'.
1.3. Finish installing.
Get linux crosscompilers for cygwin:
"cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2" (68.2 Mb).
md5sum: 340e91a346f5bb17e660db10e43005b8
These compilers are made with crosstool 0.28-rc37. This package contains:
gcc-3.3.4 and gcc-2.95.3 for i386 (glibc 2.1.3) and gcc-3.3.3 for amd64
(glibc 2.3.2).
Note! There is now newer version of GCC avaible with glibc 2.3.2:
"cygwin-gcc-3.3.6-glibc-2.3.2-linux.tar.bz2 (i386, x86_64)".
2.1. Copy 'cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2' to 'c:\cygwin' or install directory which
you selected in setup.exe.
2.2. Open Cygwin shell and change directory to root with 'cd /'.
2.3. Uncompress to Cygwin root with command:
'tar -jxvf cygwin-gcc-linux.tar.bz2'.
Cross-compilers are installed under '/opt/crosstool'. You can use theim
directly or with commands: gcc-linux, g++-linux, gcc-linux-2.95,
g++-linux-2.95, gcc-linux-x86_64 and g++-linux-x86_64.
From: Cross-compiling on Windows for Linux
More info here.
It sounds like you want to use the shared library deployment option:
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/linux-deployment.html#creating-the-application-package
Then if you wanted to go further than that, you could look into making a .rpm or a .deb .
There are lots of examples of qt projects that are now available on GitHub and have packages made. Usually for prebuilt binaries you need to make one for x86 and a separate one for x64.
Hope that helps.

Qt project release ubuntu - error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Widgets.so.5

I want to release my project written with Qt to a Ubuntu / Linux user. If they try to execute the build release version they get this error message, because they have not installed Qt:
error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Widgets.so.5:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Is there a way to add all the libraries such as libQt5Widgets.so.5 to the folder where the executable is, just like under Windows with qt.conf, where you can specify the Plugins folder?
Try this
sudo apt-get install libqt5widgets5
One solution could be:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/dir/with/libs:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
But a proper solution would be to install QT libraries in system and/or package your app for Ubuntu (in your case).
I had recently updated the Android tools via the SDK manager when I saw this error.
Re-install the SDK tools to fix. That is what worked for my machine.
It may be simplest to package the project using Ubuntu's package management system. The Qt dependency will then be automatically installed by the package manager when your project is installed. That'd be the best way to go about it, as long as there is a version of Qt 5 available in Ubuntu's package repository. It'll save you a whole lot of grief.

Needed environment for building gstreamer plugins in Windows

I've been strugling for two weeks to create an environment for building a gstreamer plugin on windows (needed for a songbird addon).
I've installed MSYS, MinGW and Cygwin, then installed GStreamer OSSBuild, and I also downloaded the sources for Songbird, which come with their own precompiled version of gstreamer.
I was unable to run gst-inspect (or any other gstreamer applications) from the songbird sources and I figured I will settle for OSSBuild (as I was able to run gst-inspect from the compiled OSSBuild).
When following the instructions for building a GST plugin (found here) through, cygwin will not recognize the OSSBuild and the build fails when running autogen, with the following error:
checking for GST... no
configure: error:
You need to install or upgrade the GStreamer development
packages on your system. On debian-based systems these are
libgstreamer0.10-dev and libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev.
on RPM-based systems gstreamer0.10-devel, libgstreamer0.10-devel
or similar. The minimum version required is 0.10.16.
configure failed
I could also not use MSYS or MinGW as they are unable to run autogen at all.
I understand that cygwin should have it's own gstreamer development packages but I couldn't find how to install them.
My question: How do I install the gstreamer packages in cygwin or how do I build using cygwin with the OSSBuild dependencies?
In short, how do I get an environment where I can build a gstreamer plugin under windows?
you can install precompiled gstreamer packages for cygwin at cygwinports. there you will find installation instructions and a list of available packages. you should not need to build them from source.
Configure's most likely going to look for libtool (.la) or pkg-config (.pc) files. Since OSSBuild is built using MSVC, you're not likely to get those files so configure can pick them up. However, you can manually create them and set them in a location to be picked up by the script. I do know that OSSBuild does have as its goal to eventually provide Visual Studio-compatible C/C++ project templates for GStreamer plugins as well as libtool and pkg-config files, but they're not available just yet.
If you checkout the OSSBuild source and can follow MSVC property files, you can see how the plugins are setup and configured.

Enabling OpenGL in wxWidgets

I installed the wxWidgets source code, compiled it and am linking the libraries thus obtained with my application code. Now I need to use OpenGL in my wxWidgets application. How do I enable this?
For building on Windows with project files:
Assume $(WXWIDGETSROOT) is the root directory of your wxWidgets installation.
Open the file $(WXWIDGETSROOT)\include\wx\msw\setup.h
Search for the #define for wxUSE_GLCANVAS.
Change its value from 0 to 1.
Recompile the library.
For building on Linux and other ./configure based platforms:
Just use ./configure --with-opengl
(A mashup answer from two partial answers given by others)
If you're using configure to build wxWidgets you just need to add --with-opengl to your command line.
Just to add a little bit... If you're on linux you need to watch the logs when running configure. If it can't find opengl dev packages then it will turn opengl off with one line of warning which is easy to miss.
run it like this to make it more obvious what development libraries you're actually missing (it looks like the --with-opengl is on by default in 3.0.0 and possibly earlier versions of wxwidgets, but it can't hurt to include it I suspect).
./configure --with-opengl > configure.log
Once configure can find all the dev libs you think you're going to use you need to rebuild wxwidgets:
make
sudo make install
I had to install these on linux mint to make wxwidget's configure happy as far as opengl was concerned (and should also work for ubuntu) to get the dev libs I needed.
sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev
(Assume $(WX_WIDGETS_ROOT) is the root directory of your wxWidgets installation.)
Open the file $(WX_WIDGETS_ROOT)\include\wx\msw\setup.h
Search and find the option wxUSE_GLCANVAS. Change its value from 0 to 1.
Recompile the library.