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OpenGL Header Files

Started by CarlosNYM Sep 13, 2007 at 3:59 PM 6 replies 2.2k views

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Sep 13, 2007 at 3:59 PM

Hey I recently found a pretty good OpenGL tutorial that I would like to dabble a little bit in while imlearning C++. However in the examples they use these header files GL/gl.h GL/glut.h I tried installing OpenGL but it keeps giving me the error that it can't not find these header files. I looked in my header file folder and I don't see them anywhere either. If anyone could tell me how I could get these. I would appreciate it.

Pzc

Sep 13, 2007 at 4:36 PM

You don't mention what development environment you're using on which platform but I'm fairly sure that for MSVC++ Express 2005 you get it with the platform SDK.

CarlosNYM

Sep 13, 2007 at 5:04 PM

Sorry, Im using Dev-C++ on Windows XP. I just don't know where to get these header files from.

szymczyk

Sep 13, 2007 at 8:01 PM

GL/gl.h is how Linux includes the gl.h header. On Windows use the following statement:

#include

Pzc is right. The OpenGL headers and libraries are part of the Windows Platform SDK.

Mark

CarlosNYM

Sep 13, 2007 at 8:48 PM

Oh ok, I was able to get the glu.h file but I can not find the gl.h file.

What is this Windows SDK? Something that comes with OS or something I have to download?

fitfool

Sep 13, 2007 at 9:06 PM

Dont use Dev-c++. Its old and outdated. Download Microsoft's Visual c++ Express. Then look for the "Windows sdk", and search around on how to install it, and youll be ready to go.

Pzc

Sep 13, 2007 at 9:36 PM

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Original post by CarlosNYM
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What is this Windows SDK? Something that comes with OS or something I have to download?

You do indeed have to download it. Here's a link to page on MS where you can download their free Express editions, a bit further down they link to the Platform SDK.
Clicky !

hughiecoles

Sep 13, 2007 at 10:09 PM

for the windows SDK, just goto microsoft.com and search "Windows SDK" i believe you'll be looking for the R2 version from what i remember

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