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GLUT For Windows: Installing Freeglut

GLUT and freeglut are libraries for OpenGL programming on Windows. The document recommends installing freeglut over GLUT as it is actively maintained. It provides instructions for installing freeglut, GLEW, and setting up a basic OpenGL program in Visual Studio. Key steps include downloading freeglut and GLEW files, extracting them, and placing the header, library, and DLL files in the appropriate Visual Studio folders. It also provides guidance on configuring library dependencies and enabling 64-bit compilation.

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GLUT For Windows: Installing Freeglut

GLUT and freeglut are libraries for OpenGL programming on Windows. The document recommends installing freeglut over GLUT as it is actively maintained. It provides instructions for installing freeglut, GLEW, and setting up a basic OpenGL program in Visual Studio. Key steps include downloading freeglut and GLEW files, extracting them, and placing the header, library, and DLL files in the appropriate Visual Studio folders. It also provides guidance on configuring library dependencies and enabling 64-bit compilation.

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GLUT for Windows

GLUT comes in two flavours for Windows. There's an old and unmaintained version called GLUT and an
open source alternative called freeglut. The textbook examples rely on freeglut, so I suggest you install that
one. You may find code that relies on GLUT that doesn't work with freeglut. The two libraries can coexist on
one PC. Follow the Optional installation instructions to install it.

Installing freeglut
1. Get the freeglut 2.8.1 MSVC zip file from http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/
2. Extract the files to your PC.
3. There are three types of files of importance: lib (in the lib folder), header (in the include\GL folder),
and dll (in the bin folder).
4. If you are using 32-bit Windows with Visual Studio 2013, the following are the easiest places to put
each of these files:
lib files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\lib
Header files: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include\gl
dll files: C:\WINDOWS\System32
5. If you are using 64-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 with Visual Studio 2013 do the following:
Header files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\include\gl
32-bit lib files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\lib
32-bit dll files: C:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64
64-bit lib files: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\lib\amd64
64-bit dll files: C:\WINDOWS\System32

Install GLEW

The textbook samples rely on GLEW to get extra OpenGL functionality. You should install it now.

Download GLEW (32-bit and 64-bit versions are separated):


https://sourceforge.net/projects/glew/files/glew/1.9.0/
Find the headers, glew32.lib and glew32.dll files and install them to the same locations you used for
freeglut.

Set up a freeglut program


Start Visual Studio 2012
Select File->New->Project
A "New Project" Dialogue box will appear.
Click the Visual C++ Projects Folder and select the Win32 Console Application template.
Choose a "Name:" and a "Location:".
Uncheck "Create directory for solution"
Click "OK"
In the Win32 Application Wizard, Select Application Settings, check the Empty project box, then
click Finish.
A new project has now been created. Now, we will add the main program...
Adding new files:
From the main menu, select Project->Add New Item...
An "Add New Item" Dialogue box will appear.
Select C++ File(.cpp) and call this file main.cpp.
In the editor window, type your program or copy and paste in the code.
Inserting existing files:
Download the desired files
Put them in the project folder next to the file with the .vcproj extension.
Add the files to your project: from the Visual Studio menu, select Project->Add Existing
Item...
A dialog will appear that should list the files you put in the project folder. Select them and add
them.
For example:
Download Angel.zip and add all the files inside to your project.
All of Dr. Angel's code relies on a set of utility files that he wrote. I have collected the
files in a .zip file for your convenience.
Add your OpenGL code and shaders. For example, download these sample files from the
textbook add them to your project:
example1.cpp
vshader91.glsl
fshader91.glsl
Build and Run:
You should be ready to go, but you may need to specify some libraries explicitly:
Make sure the project is selected in the Solution Explorer, not a code file, and not the
Solution.
Go to Project->Properties
expand Configuration Properties
expand the Linker folder
select Input
add these additional dependencies: opengl32.lib;glu32.lib;freeglut.lib;glew32.lib
64-bit configuration - 64-bit Windows only
64-bit Windows will compile and run a 32-bit project, but if you want to try to do 64-bit
OpenGL projects, you only have to do a little extra work:
Go to Project->Properties
Click on Configuration Properties
Click Configuration Manager
Select New... from Active solution platform:
Select the new platform x64, and copy settings from Win32

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