Moving application from Windows to Linux

glew works on Linux,

http://glew.sourceforge.net/ the binaries are right on the front page?

And as for GLUT I am not 100% sure, but what about FreeGLut?

For glut, use freeglut. GLEW works also on linux, to install the necessary headers, on a ubuntu system, install libglew-dev and freeglut3-dev , for other distros, the package names are similar.

I would recommend you that you use codeblocks or another multiplatform IDE.

See you.

If you're looking for a glut replacement, I would recommend GLFW. It will require some changes to the code, but it'll probably be worth it in the end. Just take a look at its User Guide example and you'll see what I'm talking about. But if you'd rather stick with glut, I'm 100% sure there is a Linux version of it too, you just have to look around a bit. Or use FreeGlut like someone mentioned.

All the packages mentioned are available for Linux. You just need to get used to the fact that getting them is actually *easier* on Linux, in some sense: Virtually all distributions have those libraries prepackaged, so you'll just have to go to your distribution's package manager and install them.

As has been pointed out before, most distributions split libraries into libfoo and libfoo-dev packages, where the former only contains the binaries and the latter contains the header files (and often pkg-config files) necessary to build programs.

Some distributions also have libfoo-dbg packages that contain debug versions of libraries, or debug symbols for the normal (non-debug) versions of libraries.

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Thanks all for the input. I was able to get freeglut and glew recompiled for my 64-bit RHEL4 system. The GLFW is an interesting side issue that I will look into further.