[R] Installing Package rgl - Compilation Fails

[Rick Bilonick]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:56 +0000, Oleg Sklyar wrote:
> Check again your error message:
> 
> opengl.hpp:24:20: error: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory
> 
> you need to install
> 
> mesa-libGLU-devel FC6 version is 6.5.1-7
> 
> which will provide development files for glut3. Needless to say the 
> above will probably pool some dependencies and (-devel) means it will 
> install *.h files as well. Start your FC package manager and search for 
> "GLU", install the above and try again.
> 
> Best,
>   Oleg
> 

I installed a slightly newer version (the one that yum found):

mesa-libGLU-devel-6.5.1-9.fc6

but it still fails (I'm installing as root):

> install.packages("rgl")
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/src/contrib/rgl_0.70.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 705556 bytes
opened URL

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Deleted a bunch of lines
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Disposable.hpp:13: warning: ‘struct IDisposeListener’ has virtual
functions but non-virtual destructor
gui.hpp:56: warning: ‘class gui::WindowImpl’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
gui.hpp:90: warning: ‘class gui::GUIFactory’ has virtual functions but
non-virtual destructor
g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o rgl.so api.o Background.o BBoxDeco.o
Color.o device.o devicemanager.o Disposable.o FaceSet.o fps.o geom.o
gl2ps.o glgui.o gui.o Light.o LineSet.o LineStripSet.o Material.o math.o
osxgui.o osxlib.o par3d.o pixmap.o PointSet.o PrimitiveSet.o QuadSet.o
RenderContext.o render.o rglview.o scene.o select.o Shape.o SphereMesh.o
SphereSet.o SpriteSet.o String.o Surface.o TextSet.o Texture.o
TriangleSet.o Viewpoint.o win32gui.o win32lib.o x11gui.o x11lib.o -L
-lX11 -lXext -lGL -lGLU -L/usr/lib -lpng12  -L/usr/lib/R/lib -lR
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [rgl.so] Error 1
chmod: cannot access `/usr/lib/R/library/rgl/libs/*': No such file or
directory
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl'
** Removing '/usr/lib/R/library/rgl'

The downloaded packages are in
        /tmp/RtmpMc94yC/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
installation of package 'rgl' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages("rgl") 


Rick B.