Tested on Ubuntu 12.04.
Should work on any recent Ubuntu, and on any distro with minor modifications.
There are many ways you can do this, the best in my opinion is Krusader's terminal emulator, but we will just use the gnome terminal emulator that comes with Ubuntu. To access it:
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hit Super key (Windows key)
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type "terminal"
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choose the Terminal application (actually it is the GNOME terminal since there are many other similar ones, but Ubuntu keeps hiding real names... sigh)
Ubuntu 12.04 also has the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+T.
On the terminal run:
# Install libraries. This depends on your Linux distribution.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt-get install -y freeglut3-dev
Download the examples at http://www.lps.usp.br/~hae/psi2652/materiais/freeglut_hae100.zip
With the terminal go to your download directory in the terminal (cd ~/Downloads by default) and run:
# download, compile and run tests
unzip -d freeglut_hae100 freeglut_hae100.zip
cd freeglut_hae100/samples
# get the makefile
wget https://raw2.github.com/cirosantilli/cpp/1b9987324a57b264217875c1e9aa429850ab0760/opengl/bouncing_balls/makefile
# hack the makefile because files are not very ANSI C compliant
sed -i '1 s/.*/CC\t:= g++ -fpermissive/' makefile
make
cd _out/
./01hello
If you see the hello example, it works.
Whenever you start a new project, just go to the project's directory (directory where the .cpp are),
and get the makefile with:
wget https://raw2.github.com/cirosantilli/cpp/1b9987324a57b264217875c1e9aa429850ab0760/opengl/bouncing_balls/makefile
To compile and run use:
make
cd _out/
./basename_no_extension
Don't use -fpermissive in your project's makefile: we only used it because the examples were not very compliant with the most recent C standards.