OpenGL version outdated? [Solved]

[King_DuckZ]

Hello guys, I must admit I'm a bit confused about this, but I'm trying to write an OpenGL 3.1 program and I'm having issues. In my CMakeLists.txt I put opengl >=3 as a compulsory requirement, and cmake succeeds, which makes me think that I do have at least opengl 3.0. Then I found this thread where they basically say to locate libGL.so and check the version there, which should be at least 3. Here's what I get:

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/usr/lib32/libGL.so
/usr/lib32/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib32/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.290.10
/usr/lib32/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib32/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib32/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib64/libGL.so
/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/opengl/ati/lib/libGL.so.1.2
/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/opengl/nvidia/lib/libGL.so.290.10
/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so
/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1
/usr/lib64/opengl/xorg-x11/lib/libGL.so.1.2


Isn't this horribly obsolete crap from the past decade?
And from eselect:

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$ eselect opengl list
Available OpenGL implementations:
  [1]   ati
  [2]   nvidia *
  [3]   xorg-x11

$ eselect opengl version
Version 20110818


So what version do I really have? Is the nVidia driver well updated on this? What about header files (GL/gl.h), are they up-to-date?
The red book says that due to the new depreciation system one should rather include <GL3/gl3.h>, which I don't have. The book does make a distinction with glext.h that should be downloaded separately, while gl3.h should be there. Is something wrong or am I just missing some package? :S http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Deprecation

gcc is complaining about glBindBuffer and glBufferData not being defined, I'm still checking what other mistake I could've made but the version thing is bugging me anyways.

[micia]

To check your OpenGL version run:

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glxinfo | grep version


among other results, you will get a line starting with:
OpenGL version string

that contains your OpenGL version.

You can also get the OpenGL version right from your application with the glGetString() function, with GL_VERSION argument, as specified in the Red Book.

[King_DuckZ]

Thanks, I didn't know about the glxinfo command. And indeed, the output of my program is "openGL initialization successful - 4.2.0 NVIDIA 290.10", but then I don't understand why I don't have gl3.h. In the examples it's included with angular brackets <>, so I take it it should be in a system path. Should I download it separately instead? (I'm speaking of the whole GL3 subset, not just gl3.h).

[DontPanic]

I did a little Googling. I don't think a final version of gl3.h has been released yet.

I downloaded what appears to be the most recent version of gl3.h, and it explicitly requests not to be repackaged since it still may change.

http://www.opengl.org/registry/api/gl3.h

I think most people who are developing for OpenGL 3 are still manually obtaining gl3.h.

Let us know if you find out differently.

[micia]

When coding in OpenGL3 you might want to manually obtain OpenGL 3 API functions, by using glXGetProcAddress() or equivalent functions on different platforms or libraries, this will improve compatibility (since you can still be able to provide a pre-OpenGL3 compatibility by doing this). Anyway, as far as I know, the situation is exactly the same described by DontPanic.
Of course, if you plan to only support OpenGL3, you have to wait for a definitive version of gl3.h.

[micia]

Since all questions appear to have been answered and there has been no more activity on this topic, I am going to mark this as solved, as described in:
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=17059