ODE Installation in Linux Mint

So, I got my new Linux (Mint) box up and going to install ODE (open dynamics engine/physics library). Here are the steps for my future reference (ODE manual here). Boy, this certainly wasn't straightforward for me...:

1. Download code from SourceForge
2. Uncompress within the Eclipse workspace. Yeah, not sure if best place but...
3. Make sure you have installed a compiler like g++. For that you can do which g++. If not sudo apt-get install g++
4. Make sure you have glut installed (these are the OpenGL libraries needed for the drawstuff part, and it took me a while to find till I got across this good one). Just execute
   sudo apt-get install freeglut3 freeglut3-dbg freeglut3-dev (.h/includes get installed in /user/include/GL, .so/.a/libraries get installed in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/). More on OpenGL directories here.
5. Follow the install from tarball instructions... Basically run ./configure --enable-double-precision to generate the make files. At the end of the run there should be a line that says "configuration:" and a list of things installed. You should see "Use drawstuff: X11" there too. Basically I think configure creates the right makefiles.
6. make will make the make files
7. sudo make install After this one can see in /usr/local/lib the ode libraries libode.a and libode.al. Also in /usr/local/include/ode a bunch of .h files.
8. Nevertheless drawstuff is MIA. Again, following the instructions here we need to cp those files: 
1. sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/include/drawstuff
2. sudo cp include/drawstuff/version.h /usr/local/include/drawstuff
3. sudo cp include/drawstuff/drawstuff.h /usr/local/include/drawstuff
4. sudo cp drawstuff/src/libdrawstuff.la /usr/local/lib
5. sudo cp drawstuff/src/.libs/libdrawstuff.a /usr/local/lib
9. Run the eclipse. If for the first time use this command: ./eclipse -initialize
10. Create a c++ project
11. Copy the demo file .cpp from ode/demo directory into the workspace project directory and do refresh in Eclipse (I used the demo_buggy demo).
12. Add at the beginning of the .cpp file the following includes (they may not be there because the example may have not been targeting Linux):
• #define dDOUBLE
• #include <X11/Xlib.h>
• #include <GL/glut.h>
• #include <ode/ode.h>
• #include <drawstuff/drawstuff.h>
• #include "texturepath.h"
13. Add the following paths (in Eclipse, right click on the project --> Properties --> C/C++ General --> Paths and Symbols):
1. In the Includes tab/GNU C++: add /usr/local/include (the ode and drawstuff includes are in there). FYI, /usr/include has most of the others, including X11 and GLUT (OpenGL).
2. On the "Properties" page, click "C/C++ Build→Settings". Under the "Tool Settings" tab, click "GCC C++ Linker→Libraries" (Fig. 10)
3. On the "Libraries (-l)" pane click the add file () button (Fig. 11)
4. On the popup dialog box type "GL" and click "OK"
5. Repeat the above two steps to add "GLU" and "glut" libraries
6. Add also X11. Notice that all these libraries are actually called libxxx with the xxx whatever. For instance, libX11.a, not X11.a. But we, nevertheless, list them without the "lib" portion. See here.
7. And just when I thought I was done, I still needed to add this one: pthread. I was getting this error: "Description Resource Path Location Type /usr/local/lib/libode.a(atomic.o): undefined reference to symbol 'pthread_mutexattr_init@@GLIBC_2.2.5' demo_buggy C/C++ Problem"
8. In the Library Paths add:
1. /usr/local/lib contains libdrawstuff.a and libode.a
2. /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ containing libGL and libGLU
3. A "funny" thing is that I was trying to find where libX11.a is, but it shows in the /proc directory (/proc/3921/cwd). Proc contains virtual directories/files. They are created at run time. In this case, 3921 is the process for the bash. So, somehow, we don't need to add any path for libX11.a
9. Clicked run and still had one silly message saying that "a program file was not specified in the launch configuration". Fixed with this. And GOOOO!!!!

Seems that we are set to PLAY NOW! :D

Other references:

1. Some good advice to run ODE in Linux
2. Hiro Aki blog
3. 3D graphics tutorials:
1. http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
2. http://www.tomdalling.com/blog/category/modern-opengl/
3. http://www.codeincodeblock.com/2013/07/modern-opengl-32-tutorial-series-with.html 
4. Don't think this has to do with Mint or ODE, but in Eclipse, after I copy the project (ctrl+C, ctrl+V, rename the cpp) the whole file is marked with red warnings/errors. It is solved by going to properties --> C/C++ General --> Indexer and then mark Enable project specific settings, Enable indexer, Use active build configuration.