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  1. New Free Pascal OpenGL (GL, GLU, GLUT, GLX) Units
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  2. GLX unit (c) 1999-2002 Sebastian Guenther, sg@freepascal.org
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  3. other units adapted to Free Pascal from the delphi3d.net units
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  4. by Tom Nuydens (tom@delphi3d.net), see http://www.delphi3d.net/
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  6. You might have a look at the original readme, glunits.txt, as well 
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  9. Some remarks:
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  10. * The new OpenGL units are not 100% compatible to the old ones; the new units
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  11.   use exactly the same function declarations as their C counterpart.
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  12. * Platform compatiblity: You can work on all targets exactly as on Win32;
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  13.   for example, you can use wglGetProcAddress for loading OpenGL extensions even
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  14.   on Unix based systems. A future release of the glext unit might have helper
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  15.   functions for loading specific extensions. (There is a small problem with
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  16.   Free Pascal: In FPC mode, you cannot assign a pointer, as returned by
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  17.   wglGetProcAddress, to a variable which holds a function pointer. Currently
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  18.   you have to compile your programs in Delphi mode, if they are using OpenGL
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  19.   extensions)
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  20. * GLUT on Win32: Get the glut32.dll from here:
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  21.   http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html
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  22. * GTKGLArea: The GL Area widget for GTK is available in the GTK package
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