Trouble building Ogre3D Engine and Devil (OpenIL)

[city-17]

Hi,

Has anyone built Ogre3D from source along with all dependencies successfully (in Ubuntu 9.04)?

I followed this excellent post (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7845848#post7845848) but even though I can install Ogre successfully and run the demos, my configuration summary (that appears after ./configure) states that Ogre make is not using DEVIL.

Here take a look


--------=== Configuration summary ===--------
Target platform : GLX
OpenGL Ogre support : GLX
GUI library to use : Xt
Use double precision arithmetic : no
Support for threading : no
Memory allocator : ned
Use STLport : no
Use FreeType : yes
Use FreeImage : yes
Use DevIL : no
Build OGRE demos : yes
Build CEGUI demos : true
Build the OpenEXR plugin : no
Build the Cg plugin : yes
Build the DirectX 9 plugin : no
--------===============================--------

I can't figure out why is that given that I also built Devil from source succesfully. Also, I thought you needed Devil to build Ogre but apparently that is not the case.

Anyone having similar issues or any ideas?
Thanks.

[caleb_yau]

when you run ./configure look carefully and these lines should pop up

checking for FreeImage_Load in -lfreeimage... yes
configure: Freeimage is being built, disabling check for DevIL.

DevIL has been deprecated in favor of FreeImage, so devil won't be used if you have the better library :)