CUDA on fedora 8 compilation error

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I recently installed CUDA 1.1 on fedora 8.(Running on an 8800GT) and driver version 169.04.Everythings fine, but when i try to compile the projects it gets an error as shown below.

[user@localhost bitonic]$ make

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglut

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

make: *** […/…/bin/linux/release/bitonic] Error 1

This happens for whichever projects i try to compile.

Any suggestions and tips would be much appreciated to get me out of this conundrum.

Thanks

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You have to install the glut libraries.

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Thanks for the reply
Im still a noobie trying to make the shift to CUDA on linux
Funny thing is, the OpenGL package was already installed.
Maybe it has a problem finding the library location
Question. Has anyone encountered this before?

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GLUT should be part of freeglut (not OpenGL), do an rpm -qa |grep freeglut to see if it is installed.
Look at the release note.
You may need to soft link libglut.so.3 to libglut.so.

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Thanks mfatica.
Worked like a charm.
Actually found a similar thread you had replied to on the same topic.
Taught me to do a more thorough search next time before starting a new thread.
Cheers