Is there something wrong with glaux.h in Dev C++? I keep getting this error. I'm trying to load a Texture using nehe's lesson 12.

return auxDIBImageLoad(FileName);

[Linker error] undefined reference to `auxDIBImageLoadA@4'

oh damn.. I didn't link gluax that's why.. Now it says It can't find glaux.dll when I run my .exe! Isn't this what I should be writing in the linker options?

-lOpenGL32 -lglu32 -lglaux

That's what the readme says I should be writing, and the Lesson12.exe runs fine.

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Ok, searched my Hd, I don't have glaux.dll, then how is Lesson12.exe running? Is glaux in VC++ a static library?!
Where can I get glaux.dll? All I find on google is message board postings complaining about not having it..

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Okay, finally found the dll, and my game works. is there anything else I can use to load textures with a non restrictive licsense?

Allegro and AllegroGL.

I'm dumb!. Besides allegro. I made the first finished version of this game with allegro, Now I want to do it better.

Then use SDL or roll your own. I don't see what's funny/unprofessional about Allegro.

With SDL don't I need to include my source code? Same with DevIL?

I didn't say there was anything wrong with allegro. I love allegro. What I meant by Now I want to do it better is 3D + getting rid of all allegro issues. (flickering, mouse etc..)

I installed the opengl sdk from the opengl gameprogramming book and IT didn't even have a glaux dll. So I think the conclusion is: there is no glaux.dll

So why do you want to use glaux? Glut has everything glaux does and then alot more:

glut for mingw32

And if not glut then there are alot of windows wrappers opengl; NeHe's base code, GLFW etc...

And if you want to render to a DIB, you don't need anything other than the winapi for that.

EDIT: to my knowledge with SDL and Devil if you include the DLL you don't have to include your source. (the Devil api is really wierd if you ask me.)

I'm probably a little out of my element here, but I thought glut and glaux are just helpers and not essential. I actually make a textured OpenGL demo using just straight OpenGL. I was able to do that because I was already familiar with the .BMP file format, so I just opened it like any other binary file, loaded the necessary data, and slammed it into glTexImage2D(). Dunno if that helps ...

Nonnus, I don't need an opengl helper lib, I can do it in straight win32 and opengl. I just need to load images.
I erased all my glaux loading stuff, and killed the dll. I'm going to try and write a loader for tga. (and fail miserably) hehe