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GLUT
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Flight Gear requires GLUT.  GLUT needs to be installed on your system
before you can build Flight Gear.  GLUT can be found at:

    http://reality.sgi.com/opengl/glut3/glut3.html

GLUT (pronounced like the glut in gluttony) is the OpenGL Utility
Toolkit, a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL
programs. It implements a simple windowing application programming
interface (API) for OpenGL. GLUT makes it considerably easier to learn
about and explore OpenGL programming.  GLUT provides a portable API so
you can write a single OpenGL program that works on both Win32 PCs and
X11 workstations.