[OpenGL] Running OpenGL program on Mac OS X

नमस्ते
Today I am going to show how you can run OpenGL programs on your Mac OS X through command line (Terminal.App).

1. Use the header file “GLUT/glut.h” and not “GL/glut.h”

2. main function should return an integer type value.
E.g.

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    ...
    return 0;
}

3. Run the program by using the following command:

gcc -framework OpenGL -framework GLUT <inputfile> -o <output> -Wno-deprecated

We are passing -Wno-deprecated flag to surpress the warning generated as lot of procedures are deprecated after 10.9.x.

In Ubuntu, we pass -lm -lglut -lGL -lGLUT, but in our case we pass OpenGL and GLUT as parameters to framework option.

Happy animating.

Let the Windows be open, and feel the Freedom.