Re: [Closed REQ 6074]: Linux version of geomview

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To compile geomview from source, you do need Motif libraries, though if
you just get the Linux binary distribution, it's statically linked with them
and you don't need anything beyond the standard Linux libraries.
Likewise, the Linux binary distribution includes a binary linked with the
Mesa OpenGL libraries as well as one which just uses our own renderer.

I've heard of a project to develop a freeware Motif-like library called
"lesstif"; the last time I looked at its web page, they didn't seem to
think it was ready for general use, but that may have changed.
At any rate, we haven't tried compiling geomview with it.  I hope we can
move away from Motif, probably to tcl/tk, in the next release of Geomview,
if any.

The Mesa OpenGL-like library is a nice piece of software, also freely
redistributable, and available from
   ftp://iris.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/Mesa
It's a library that provides most Open GL functionality on top of
plain X windows (as well as Windows NT and NextStep, I think).