Creating spotlight in OpenGL scene

Question

I'm studying OpenGL and trying to create a spot light at my application. The code that I'm using for my #vertex-shader is shown below:

    #:vertex-shader #{
        #version 150 core
            in vec3 in_pos;
            in vec2 in_tc;
            out vec2 tc;

            glLightf(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPOT_CUTOFF, 20.0f);
            GLfloat spot_direction[] = { -1.0, -1.0, 0.0 };
            glLightfv(GL_LIGHT0, GL_SPOT_DIRECTION, spot_direction);

            glEnable(GL_LIGHT0);


            void main() {

                vec4 pos= vec4(vec3(1.0)*in_pos - vec3(1.0), 1.0);
                pos.z=0.0;
                gl_Position =   pos;
                tc = in_tc;
            }
}

The thing is, every time I'm trying to run the code an Error that says:

Type: other, Source: api, ID: 131169, Severity: low
Message: Framebuffer detailed info: The driver allocated storage for renderbuffer 1.
 len = 157, written = 0
failed to compile vertex shader of deferred: directional
info log for shader deferred: directional
vertex info log for shader deferred: directional:
ERROR: Unbound variable: when

Specifications:

Renderer: GeForce GTX 580/PCIe/SSE2
Version: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 319.17
GLSL: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler
Status: Using GLEW 1.9.0
1024 x 768
OS: Linux debian

I guess to create this spotlight is pretty much simple, but since I'm really new to OpenGL I don't have a clue how to do it until now, even reading sources like:

http://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter05.html#name3

Read also in some place that light spots can get really hard to understand, but I cant avoid this step right now since I'm following my lecture schedule. Could anybody help me?

Answer 1

You completely, totally misunderstood what shaders do. First of all you're declaring function calls in the global scope, which is disallowed anyway. And then, for some reason I cannot fathom you try to call deprecated, old style, fixed function OpenGL state setter functions in the shader. This is not how it works.

I suggest you head to a decent OpenGL tutorial, and work through it from the beginning without skipping things. I suggest http://arcsynthesis.org/gltut