Hi,
I’m going to start with JOGL.
could you tell me what do I have to download and from where?
Is it in “Precompiled binaries and documentation”? (although the status is “draft”?
In that case, which one do I have to download? Only jogl-natives-win32.jar (if I’m going to use windows)?
Thanks in advance.
Davinia.
You need to download jogl.jar and jogl-natives-win32.jar. jogl.jar goes in the lib/ext directory of you JRE. You need to unzip jogl-natives-win32.jar and extract jogl.dll and place it in the bin directory of your JRE. If you downloaded Sun’s JDK you will have two JRE’s installed on your computer so you will have to follow this procedure once for both JRE’s.
This leads me to a little question.
Is putting dlls and jars into JRE directories the best solution or shouldn’t we use -Djava.library.path and -cp instead?
I place jogl.dll and jogl_cq.dll in the base directory of the Java application that uses it. I also put jogl.jar in the same directory and point to it with a -classpath setting when running my java app.
This has the major advantage for distribution of not requiring any administrative rights, ensuring the entire Java application and resource files can be contained within a single directory tree and of keeping the Java distribution ‘clean’. It has the disadvantage of requiring multiple instances of the 3 jogl files for each application that uses them.
Jo.
Yes, it’s my way too…
But i though that put files into JRE’s directories may cause some problems, especially when changing versions…