Three Module Failing about asymptote

[alpenwasser]

Small update: I fiddled around some more, and running Asymptote with the render=0 option does yield an output file:

asy -render=0 myfile

Of course, in the case of the unitsphere, this produces just a black, filled circle, which isn't exactly the point, but it compiles, and this might at least be an acceptable workaround for other cases (Brett's 3d plot from the sourceforge thread looks pretty okay with -render=0 on my machine, for example).

[johncbowman]

The problem is likely in your OpenGL or freeglut libraries. What version of freeglut are you using?
Make sure they are up-to-date and if so, try downgrading them. In UNIX we normally use
freeglut 3.0.0 but under cygwin, 2.8.1 seems to be the latest stable version.

[Pouya-moh]

I'm having the same issue. Since apt-get comes with 2.8.something of freeglut, I compiled version 3 from source and installed it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3.10.0. Then I recompile asymptote with ./configure LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/GL/, hoping that I have linked against correct version.

I still have exactly the same error, except this time it takes longer until it aborts. I have this issue with master.

[johncbowman]

These issues are probably fixed with the latest git version, particularly commit aa08fb3 (which disabled offscreen rendering).
We also moved over to a GLSL shader and removed dependence on the deprecated GLU library.