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The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platformopen-source C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficientrun-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions aresupported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extensionfunctionality is exposed in a single header file. GLEW has beentested on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux,Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, and Solaris.

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The simpler but less flexible way is to include glew.h andglew.c into your project. On Windows, you also need todefine the GLEW_STATIC preprocessor token when building astatic library or executable, and the GLEW_BUILD preprocessortoken when building a dll. You also need to replace and with in your code and set the appropriate includeflag (-I) to tell the compiler where to look for it. Forexample:

Depending on where you put glew.h you may also need to changethe include directives in glew.c. Note that if you are usingGLEW together with GLUT, you have to include glew.h first.In addition, glew.h includes glu.h, so you do notneed to include it separately.

On Windows, you also have the option of adding the supplied projectfile glew_static.dsp to your workspace (solution) and compileit together with your other projects. In this case you also need tochange the GLEW_BUILD preprocessor constant toGLEW_STATIC when building a static library or executable,otherwise you get build errors.

Note that GLEW does not use the Cruntime library, so it does not matter which version (single-threaded,multi-threaded or multi-threaded DLL) it is linked with (withoutdebugging information). It is, however, always a good idea to compile allyour projects including GLEW with the same C runtime settings.

Alternatively, you can use the provided project files / makefile tobuild a separate shared library you can link your projects with later.In this case the best practice is to install glew.h,glew32.lib, and glew32.dll / libGLEW.so towhere the OpenGL equivalents gl.h, opengl32.lib, andopengl32.dll / libGL.so are located. Note that youneed administrative privileges to do this. If you do not haveadministrator access and your system administrator will not do it foryou, you can install GLEW into your own lib and include subdirectoriesand tell the compiler where to find it. Then you can just replace with in yourprogram:

It is important to keep in mind that glew.h includes neitherwindows.h nor gl.h. Also, GLEW will warn you byissuing a preprocessor error in case you have included gl.h,glext.h, or glATI.h before glew.h.

The last issue that I ran into was a simple "undefined reference to `_imp__glewInit@0'" -- something which I had seen many times before (with other libraries) and led me to believe that I had not added "libglew32.a" to MinGW's library folder, or possibly that I needed to add "-l glew32" to my g++ command. Neither of these were the issue. I then browsed this site for possible solutions, the most promising of which suggested that I add "#define GLEW_STATIC" immediately before my call to "#include < GL\glew.h >". This solved nothing.

I started trying random things at this point, and the solution that I stumbled into was to use the "libglew32.dll.a" instead of "libglew32.a". Even this didn't find the glew32.dll that I had put in System32, and so I'm having to put glew32.dll in either SysWOW64, or in my project's folder for it to be found.

Why was the linker not able to find glewInit() when I had "libglew32.a" in MinGW's library folder and "-l glew32" added to the compile command? This combination worked for OpenGL, GLUT, GLFW, GLU, GLM, etc..

I am trying to link the GLEW library to an Xcode project, but I have been running into an issue. Whenever I set up my build to link with libGLEW.a, I will immediately get a crash on startup, with an error output reading:

I have not written any code to request that my application load this dynamic library. This behavior seems like perhaps my GLEW library is actually an import library, and is attempting to load the dylib. I did build GLEW myself, and I can see that "-DGLEW_STATIC" was specified on the command line, when generating the objects for the static library.

When I built the static GLEW library, it also built the dynamic version right next to it. Based on some other searches I made online, it seems that Xcode will automatically attempt to load up the dynamic version of a library, if a version of the same name exists in the library search path.

I'm using windows and my goal is to add the glew library ( ) to mingw. I have downloaded mingw-w64 via GitHub ( -mingw/releases/tag/20210423). It comes with a "bin", "lib" and "include" folder. Within the "bin" folder I do "make" to execute my project's makefile which inlcudes the line

When using a library use the -I compiler flag to tell the compiler where to find the include files (in your case the path containing the GL folder) and the -L linker flag to tell the linker where to find the libraries.

To link with the library use the -l flag. The library itself is a a lib*.a file (or lib*.dll.a for shared libraries). For the -l flag the library is specified without prefix and suffix, so if your library is called libglew.a the flag will be -lglew.

hi all.
i finally figured out how to install the newest glew and freeglut under dev-c++. it is very easy.
before installing glew and freeglut, download the newest driver for your video card for the newest opengl support.

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform.

I am trying to compile my code using nvcc compiler with -lglew linker along with other GL,glfw libraries.It shows -lglew not found.libGlew.so is present in jetson installation when i checked.Can anyone provide a solution to this?

My Problem:
I managed to use the git repository for GLFW( ), and link it statically using cmake, but for the love of god, I cannot figure out how to statically link glew by its git repository( -com/glew). I have been struggling with this for weeks now, so I would appreciate any help.

For statically linking GLEW you just need to use #define GLEW_STATIC and link to glew32s (I think)
I would recommend not using MinGW[-w64] or cygwin on windows, they're too much of a hassle. Just use VS

This probably happens when Blender was compiled with WITH_SYSTEM_GLEW set to ON at some point (maybe a lite build?). Then even if you change it to OFF, the GLEW library may still be configured to use one from the system that is outdated.

If you are sure you did everything correctly but, still have some unidentified problems, try to replace glew32.lib with glew32s.lib, and add #define GLEW_STATIC beginning of your code.

The glew-1.10 branch is available for those that need newer OpenGL 4.* functionality. To use it, manually clone the repository and checkout the branch. As the branchname implies, it's using GLEW 1.10.

It is the intent of the go-gl authors to keep gl and related packages forward-compatible at both the API/ABI levels per go release so that you can continue to import from this github repository. Development requiring breakage will occur on the glew-1.10 branch, and will be merged with master when a new go version is released.