More information on the mingw tools can be found here. For these tutorials im putting it in a directory i created called c. A free opengl utility toolkit, the opensourced alternative to the glut library. When glut32 was ported over it stopped being updated in 2001. Mingw, a contraction of minimalist gnu for windows, formerly mingw32, is a minimalist development environment for native microsoft windows applications. So, comparing the problem caused by qt on cygwin and make file, i prefer to transplant freeglut to mingw. This tutorial will show you how to download and install freeglut w the mingw compiler on windows operating systems. It makes opengl easier to work with by providing windows and some other functionality for you making the windows is a platform specific thing that is just plain lame and a fucking drag to do in. It removes the nonwindows source code and adds a makefile which can be used to build freeglut with mingw.
The textbook examples rely on freeglut, so i suggest you install that one. Inside it, go to visualstudio\2012 directory and open the freeglut. Feel free to test by downloading a tarball of current trunk, or grabbing a copy from svn. Pawel started freeglut development on december 1st, 1999.
Its for installing them both in the system when you build freeglut, and then being able to pick which one you want to use on a case by case basis. Product freeglut opengl utility toolkit description freeglut msvc build by transmission zero. To use wgl instead of glx under cygwin, you need to link your program against native win32 graphics libraries. It provides a complete open source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native mswindows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rdparty cruntime dlls. Freeglut is an opensource library implementation of glut. The reason for this is because transmission zero produces freeglut windows development libraries for mingw and msvc. Open the zip archive and there should be a folder called freeglut. So some folks decided to recreate it and named it freeglut. So download the newest stable release that you can. Glew provides efficient runtime mechanisms for determining which opengl extensions are supported on the target platform. How to use freeglut on windows with mingw and qt creator.
Copy that entire folder and put it anywhere youd like. An easy way to get the equivalent of glut compiled with mingw is to use freeglut. Click on sourceforge to go to a list of download sites and pick one. Using freeglut or glut with mingw transmission zero. How to install freeglut for visual studio 2012 code. Copy the lib\ and include\ folders from the zip archive to that location. Its in there where you will see the mingw download package that is described in this tutorial. Download the mingw and msys installer usually called mingwgetsetup. How to setup opengl on mingww64 in windows 10 64 bits. You can download my freeglut mingw package with pgp signature and pgp key. Open notepad with run as administrator and open file from. Opengl core and extension functionality is exposed in a single header file. On the other hand, if you discover a bug and want to report it, it is helpful to try to run the current freeglut, as. Newer is generally better, but unless you know what youre doing, you should use a release marked stable.
Free download page for project freegluts freeglut3. Build with commands such as the followingconfigure withxno. Free download page for project freegluts freeglut2. Installing glut for mingw department of computer science jmu. Mingw and msys for gcc, windres, mingw32make, msys, cp, and rm. Add the full mingw\bin path to the windows path environment variable for xp.
These are default locations, your paths may be different. Instead, i think mingw is an executable substitution. Installing glut in codeblock september 1 june 2 january 1 2014 5 may 4. If you would like a sample test file and make file click here. If you provide the compilationlinking logs from your attempts with source distribution, we could find a reason for it not working as well. How to build the opengl utility toolkit glut library for win32 using mingw and msys downloads. The first thing you need to do is download the binaries for the win32 port of glut. These steps helped me install and use freeglut with both visual studio 2012 and visual studio express 2012 for windows desktop download a stable release of freeglut from its webpage unzip the downloaded freeglut file to a directory.
Get project updates, sponsored content from our select partners, and more. Freeglut is an uptodate version of the popular glut kit. This readme file applies to the git clone of freegluts svn repo on that is hosted on github. Workaround for an issue which cropped up with the release of gcc10. Theres an old and unmaintained version called glut and an open source alternative called freeglut. Windows 10 3264 bit windows 8 3264 bit windows 7 3264 bit windows vista 3264 bit. This is provided here to enable user to contribute easier. Leave the selected items to install as is, and click next. Qt creator is based on mingw and qt library has been deployed on mingw. When you compile the source file, you need the lib files, and when you run the executable file, you need dll file, you can find them all in the freeglut package. If you are just starting out and not maintaining or porting from an older glut project, you should build freeglut.
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