Problems with installing JoGL on winXP + JCreator

OpenGL Development JOGL Development
#1

Hi

I tried to download the “jogl-1.1.0-pre-20070202-windows-i586.zip” file and unzipped it.
I copied all the dll’s to the c:\windows\system32 library and i’ve added the jar files to my JCreator project.

I still get the following msg when trying to compile a NeHe-Jogl lesson (no. 34) :
package net.java.games.jogl.util does not exist
package net.java.games.jogl does not exist
cannot find symbol class GLEventListener
cannot find symbol class GLCanvas
cannot find symbol class GLU
cannot find symbol class GL
cannot find symbol class GLDrawable
… etc…

what is the problem? :-\

#2

A couple things are wrong. The nehe lesson you are using was created using the old jogl api. It needs to have its packages updated. Also you shouldn’t install jogl into the system32 directory. It seems like at least once a week someone posts a problem that is resolved by deleting old copies of jogl out of a system directory.

#3

As GKW suggested, unzip JOGL files to some other directory. Then, remembering that directory, change JCreator’s compiler settings (or your project-specific compiler settings) to include the java.library.path property to point to the location of the DLLs.