Freeglut for windows 64

Related Articles. Author Info Last Updated: December 22, Part 1. Highlight what you expect to do. Highlight step or sub-step or part of it and then do it. For example see picture above. Create folder GL. If folder GL already exists it's okay.

Download the application GLEW. Below Downloads , besides Binaries , click "Windows bit and bit". In thrown wizard check "Save" and click OK. In downloading window click folder glew If folder glew Download the freeglut 3. In section freeglut 3. In downloading window if you see stripes on folder's icon compressed folder , double click it. Part 2. Create folder GLP.

Navigate to disk directory C. If it already exists it's okay. If it doesn't, go to disk C:, and create folder GLP. Create an empty project. Check "Place solution and project in the same directory". Click Create. Wait till Visual Studio instance appears. Add your source file to the Project. In the Name text box, type or copy and paste Main. Click the Add button. The file will open in the main text editor but leave the file blank for now.

Part 3. Configure "Properties Pages". Name in image is different, but it does'nt matter. Main menu. Additional Include Directories. Copy dll files and paste in project-folder. Second F. In first F. If 4 files and Main. Go to Part 2, step 3, and add it now. Test your project. Right click on following link and select Open Link in New Window badprog. Scroll down the page and find section Testing the setup see image above. Copy code and paste in Main. You should see two windows: one black the console and other with white square in black background.

If you do not see that, do bellow step. Correct any errors. In "Error List" if you see error about file with extension. Also to step 1, Additional Library Directories. Good job. Part 4. Create template. Check if the path to gcc is there. If not add it by pressing the "Browse" button Now install CMake Open CMake gui and follow a build instruction for freeglut in the internet Then you can follow the direction of miguel gimenez Link to readme from OP last link. On Windows 7 64 bit and Windows 10 32 bit.

I have tried to install from source code of freeglut I have run CMake cmake-gui. I have selected mingw-makefile from cmake-gui. Clicked configure twice, configure is done, then clicked generate, generate is done. From a CMD command line window, from the directory where cmake made makefile and it is freeglut Then I got some errors.

The compilation of the library is out of the scope of this forum. Can you check if the libraries have been already created?. The error may be in the compilation of a sample. You should see two.

If yes, please state why you believe this. But, it uses this patch. It has made graphic software a little easier to code when it comes to programming OpenGL with 3D in mind. This tutorial was demonstrated to work under as well as assumes that your using Microsoft Windows 7 Bit. In this tutorial you will see the path reference as the Bit style of the folder x EDIT December 4th : Because I am constantly being asked why they cannot see the files to edit that I listed below, well keep in mind its about file extensions that are hidden.

You do NOT want to hide your extensions except your protected system files. Leave those hidden. Either way, it's up to you. I prefer to install everything just in case. Think of freeglut as if it was the Glut32 Binaries, which the original source code to Glut32 was never available since its proprietary. But once you get the GLUT demo working, you can play with the freeglut source code from their website.

You can however still play with the Ported Glut32 source code. It's latest stable release was back in though. Once you install Code::Blocks, then you can download and unzip the freeglut ZIP file, which will contain this.. This is the folder where you see Include and Lib folders. This is important. If it asks you to overwrite folders, that's OK, say yes.

It will not overwrite anything important.