Linux(Ubuntu 14.04) setting up OpenGL

1. Install c/c++ compilation package.

2. install openGL and freeGlut library

sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

3. testing: run this code (comes from openGL red book) by save it as a cpp file. Then open the terminal and navigate to the directory containing this cpp file.

g++ text.cpp -lglut -lGL
Then you will get an a.out. run it by

./a.out4. Done

 #include "GL/freeglut.h"
 #include "GL/gl.h"

 /* display function - code from:
      http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~unreal/theredbook/chapter01.html
 This is the actual usage of the OpenGL library.
 The following code is the same for any platform */
 void renderFunction()
 {
     glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
     glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
     glColor3f(1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
     glOrtho(-1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0, -1.0, 1.0);
     glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
         glVertex2f(-0.5, -0.5);
         glVertex2f(-0.5, 0.5);
         glVertex2f(0.5, 0.5);
         glVertex2f(0.5, -0.5);
     glEnd();
     glFlush();
 }

 /* Main method - main entry point of application
 the freeglut library does the window creation work for us,
 regardless of the platform. */
 int main(int argc, char** argv)
 {
     glutInit(&argc, argv);
     glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE);
     glutInitWindowSize(,);
     glutInitWindowPosition(,);
     glutCreateWindow("OpenGL - First window demo");
     glutDisplayFunc(renderFunction);
     glutMainLoop();
     return ;
 }

Note: Fell free to context me.