CS 450: COMPUTER GRAPHICS

INSTALLING GLUT AND GLEWSPRING 2015

DR. MICHAEL J. REALE

INTRODUCTION

• The following slides will explain how to install GLUT and GLEW on:

• Windows

• Unix/Linux

• Mac?

WINDOWS

DOWNLOAD GLUT AND GLEW

• GLUT: Go to http://user.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html

• Download the “bin” version of GLUT 3.7.6: http://user.xmission.com/~nate/glut/glut-3.7.6-bin.zip

• GLEW: Go to http://glew.sourceforge.net/

• Download the “Binaries Windows 32-bit and 64-bit”: https://sourceforge.net/projects/glew/files/glew/1.11.0/glew-1.11.0-win32.zip/download

• Unzip both

INSTALL GLUT

• glut32.dll copy to:

• 32-bit OS --> C:\Windows\System32\glut32.dll

• 64-bit OS --> C:\Windows\SysWOW64\glut32.dll

• glut32.h copy to:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio XX\VC\lnclude\GL\glut32.h

• XX = version of Visual Studio

• You may have to create the GL folder

• glut32.lib copy to:

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio XX\VC\lib\glut32.lib

• C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio XX\VC\lib\amd64\glut32.lib

INSTALL GLEW

• Copy the following (NOTE: use the Win32 versions!):

• bin/Release/Win32/glew32.dll C:\Windows\System32\glew32.dll

• bin/Release/Win32/glew32.dll --> C:\Windows\SysWOW64\glew32.dll

• lib/Release/Win32/glew32.lib C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio XX\VC\lib\glew32.lib

• include/GL/*.h C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio XX\VC\lnclude\GL\*.h

CREATE PROJECT

• In Visual Studio 2013

• New Project

• Visual C++ Win32 Console

• Choose “Application Settings” and check “Empty”

SETTING UP YOUR PROJECT

• Right-click on your project name in the Solution Explorer and go to “Properties”

• Go to “Linker” “Input” “Additional Dependencies”

• Add:

• glew32.lib

• glut32.lib

• glu32.lib

• opengl32.lib

• Note items are separated by semicolons!

UNIX/LINUX

INSTALLING GLUT AND GLEW

• Both GLUT (or freeglut) and GLEW should be available in your respective package managers

• That said, you will want to install both the regular and developer (“devel”) versions of the packages:

• E.g., glut-devel and glew-devel

COMPILING YOUR CODE

• I’m assuming you are using g++ as your compiler

• If you source file is “HelloGL.cpp”, then use the following command:

• g++ HelloGL.cpp -o HelloGL -lglut -lGLEW -lGL -lGLU -std=c++11

• This will create an executable called “HelloGL”

• ./HelloGL

MAC?

MAC INSTRUCTIONS (SORT OF)

• Unfortunately, I do not have a Mac to test installing/compiling/running with GLUT and GLEW on it.

• GLUT: the following links contains instructions for install GLUT on Mac (and Windows and Unix/Linux)

• http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~sugih/courses/eecs487/glut-howto/

• GLEW: It seems you have to compile it from source, or you have to use Homebrew

• http://nacho4d-nacho4d.blogspot.com/2012/04/installing-glew-in-macos-x.html

• If you run into problems (on any of these platforms), let me know.