Tag: open-gl

OpenGL not Found, “cannot find -lGL”, and Other Issues with NVIDIA Drivers

Under Ubuntu,  sometimes when the NVIDIA drivers are installed, CMake cannot properly find OpenGL (specifically libGL.so). As a result, linking issues may occur. The easiest fix for this is to first create a symlink of nvidia-current to nvidia-xxx where xxx is the version of the current NVIDIA driver installed (e.g. nvidia-387) . Then create a …

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Rendering Multiple OpenGL 2D Textures, Only the First One Is Rendered

Exactly a month ago I was dealing with the problem of rendering some text on the screen using the font + texture rendering method. The problem I had was only the first text block was rendered to the screen. After a little bit of digging around I found this question on StackOverflow. Although the answers …

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