warning complete newbie advise: I've succeeded after some _considerable_ pawing around for java demo source, to get Gears.java up and running through Eclipse. You might need to change your code around a bit.

I think the issue is that the APIs have changed:

   GL2 gl = drawable.getGL().getGL2();
...
           
    gl.glMatrixMode(GL2.GL_PROJECTION);


source: http://kenai.com/projects/jogl/sources/jogl-demos-git/content/src/demos/gears/Gears.java?rev=2d5f1650af2b64f7a8d25842b2b95192b3e4a4e9

Well about the only struggle I had was some eclipse snafu with ld library path. You might want to indicate antlr2.7.7 as the version to build gluegen against. Otherwise gears works great.

Thanks for the fast reply. I have no problem trying a build.

Are there any likely problems from using old libs like this, or is it just a complain because JOGL is built against a later version?

(my linux box is feeling very unfashionable. i hope it doesn't crash in despair)

I've downloaded the current release onto my system (redhat ws 4 64bit). I am getting the glibc_2.4 unsatisfied link error. Am I hosed with respect to using the latest JOGL release or is there someway I can upgrade/build my way out of the problem?

I'm trying to see if I have another route beside Java3d here.