So I talked to the people in the penumbra forums and got it working.
It seems that some of the documents are a tad old. I had to add in
native-deps and after some tweaking I got it working.

Timothy

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, HSR <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try this:
>
> - Install leiningen;
> - Download the LWJGL jars and libs (www.lwjgl.org);
> - Create a new project (lein new <your-project-name-here>);
> - Download your project dependencies (lein deps);
> - Copy the LWJGL jars to the 'lib' folder inside your project;
> - Copy the native folder of LWJGL to the root of your project (so it
>  will end up like "your-project-name-here/native");
> - Run 'lein repl' on the root of your project;
> - Start hacking!
>
> There are some Java tutorials on the LWJGL site (but it is easy to
> port to Clojure).
>
> H
>
>
> On 21 fev, 10:24, Timothy Baldridge <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm not sure exactly what I've done wrong, but about 8 months now I've
>> tried, on and off again, to start using Clojure. However, every time,
>> I'm kicked in the face by the same issue. I can't get a decent
>> environment setup. All I really want is a basic Clojure install that
>> allows me to talk to OpenGL.
>>
>> Finally I found out that the "best" was was to use lein. So I
>> installed lein, and after several hours finally got it to download and
>> install Clojure. I added penumbra to my project.clj, and told lein to
>> get the deps. It downloaded dozens of packages then said it completed.
>> Oh! but penumbra also requires a Java OpenGL interop package that
>> isn't on clojars!
>>
>> Anyway, as a starting point I should say that I've used Python, Ruby,
>> C++ (on Linux, Mac and Windows), C#, even Erlang, and I have never had
>> such a terrible time just getting a decent ide. Now admittedly I don't
>> have much Java experience, so perhaps that's my issue. Since I have
>> allot of .NET experience I'm going to try with Clojure-CLR next.
>> Perhaps Clojure-CLR and OpenTK will get me what I need.
>>
>> But yeah, we really need a clone of Python's easy_install or
>> something. I don't really want to mess with system variables, copying
>> jars by hand. All I want to do is code Clojure with OpenGL.
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> Timothy
>>
>> --
>> “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was
>> that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination
>> of their C programs.”
>> (Robert Firth)
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