Interesting, I'm not sure where this implementation fits in, pyprocessing seems to be better developed and much simpler for the beginner (didn't claudio esperanc have a hand in developing pyprocessing). Whereas for the advanced user there is openFrameworks.

 Anyway I'm sucker for trying out new things, and I found that on a debian based system (aptosid) I could use

1. apt-get install freeglut3-dev  (as a superuser) to install the freeglut dependency
2. apt-get install libglu-dev (also as superuser, gave libglu1-mesa-dev is already at newest)

This was simpler than building freeglut from source, albeit not the latest version.

Thereafter cprocessing compiled OK and the examples ran OK.

I've dabbled with C++ before, and being a linux user of long standing I'm used to Makefiles etc, but I thought the use of the supplied "universal Makefile" could be better explained.

Thanks for your repy, I'll add your suggestions in. Claudio Esperanc did work on pyprocessing, and also was the start of cprocessing- he should hold the credit for creating this afaik, I have done little in comparison. I thought mainly as a way for people who want to learn c++ while using a familiar library so that it is not too frustrating, this way people can jump right in to a familiar environment while going a little deeper down the rabbit hole.