When I downloaded glut there are certain files that I dont know what to do with.

There are:

-glut32.dll
-glut32.lib
-glut.def
-glut.h

I dont know if I need to put glut.def and glut32.dll in the include folder in the visual C++ 5.0 folder or in the lib folder. Please help.

Here is the source code:


Mod edit: Please
Thanks, gabehabe

This post has been edited by gabehabe: 6 Aug, 2008 - 03:28 AM

I'm gonna move this to game programming, and I'm pretty sure you'll get a response from either stayscrisp or Tom.

...Spending too much time on this thread, I guess

Hey

Uh oh someone hasn't been using google to its full potential

First of all



is all you need for your includes, you cannot include lib files like this



so instead of including them like this you need to move the files to the appropriate folder so that your compiler knows where they are

copy glut32.dll to your system folder (c:\windows\system\ or something similar)

glut32.lib goes in your compilers lib folder (c:\Program Files\Visual Studio etc. \lib\)

glut.h goes into your compilers include folder (c:\Program Files\Visual Studio etc. \include\)

I would recommend copying that glu32.lib to the lib folder as well

once you have done this once you wont have to do it again unless you get a new compiler

and for future reference only include header files like this <> and std header files like <iostream> do not include
cpp files, lib files, dll's or anything

good luck

I was right! WOOO!

Anyway, in addition to this:I'd like to add that when you include a custom header, you would include it with #include "myHeader.h" as opposed to standard files, which you would include with #include <iostream>

Just a bit of nitpicking.

The OpenGL header files should be in a subfolder called "GL" inside your includes folder.

If you're using GLUT then you only need to include it's header file (it pulls the others in automatically).

So your OpenGL include should like like this assuming you're using GLUT.
#include <GL/glut.h>

The slash can go either way, and Windows isn't case sensitive so it doesn't matter if the "GL" is capitalized or not, but other systems (namely Linux and Mac OS X) will expect it to be like that. Even if you aren't planning on writing cross platform code, it's still a good habit to have in case you ever decide to.

C/C++ have ways of loading library files(LoadLibrary(..) on Windows I believe), but they are platform dependent so it's just best to toss the libraries in your compiler's library directory.

Using angle brackets ('<', '>') with an include macro indicates to the pre-processor that it should look for that file on the includes path. Typically in Windows this would be somewhere in the Visual C++ folder, in Linux it would probably be /usr/include. You could certainly add your own includes directory to the includes path, and reference your header files with angle brackets, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Here's some tutorials on setting up GLUT with Visual Studio.
Visual Studio .NET 2003
Visual C++ 6.0
Visual Studio 2005

I must say that i was guessing a bit hehe, but im sure i was right.

I use Mac and Xcode which is entirely different for linking libraries, so my bad if anything was unclear or didnt work

I also have a file named glut.def, what do I do about that file?

I read that you can build the library using your compiler, usually these are something like .dsw so i think its just a project file and nothing to worry about

Thanks for all you guys help