OpenGL Installation in MS Visual Studios 2012

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Hello,

I am trying to get OpenGL running on MS Visual Studios 2012. I tried getting information on how to do it but no one seems to be providing step by step instructions on how to do it. I am using Windows 7 32 bits and I know I will need the glew32, glut32 and opengl32 but I just don't know where to find these and how to configure it with MS Visual Studios 2012.

Your help is much appreciated.

Posted 5-May-13 11:09am

wayten

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Lebohang Danster · Answer 1 · 2013-05-05T12:12:00

Solution 1

1. Copy *.dll files to C:\Windows\System32
2. Copy *.h to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include\GL -- Create gl folder
3. Copy *.lib to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\lib

you can find the install here http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut37.zip[^]

Posted 5-May-13 12:12pm

Lebohang Danster

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wayten 5-May-13 19:25pm

I did what you told me to do but I get an error saying: LNK1104 cannot open glew32.lib

Santhosh G_ 6-May-13 12:18pm

copy glew32.lib from the lib path to visual studio lib path.
Download it from http://glew.sourceforge.net/install.html or any other web reosurce

Lebohang Danster 6-May-13 12:32pm

Think you are confusing things here, The installation I gave you is for installing the glut library. To install glew32,you will need to follow the following instructions. http://glew.sourceforge.net/install.html