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This tutorial seems to have helped a lot of people so I’ve updated it (as of 18/06/2010) for Windows 7 and the latest version of CodeBlocks and MinGW.
You can find the new and improved version of this tutorial at:
http://www.deannicholls.co.uk/tutorials/show/cpp_glut
Thanks 🙂
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Thanks Dean for a great tutorial, it was concise and to the point. Exactly what I was looking for. 🙂
Hello ,
that’s wonderfull, I like the article, it has been really helpfull for me. That’s why i didn’t hesitated to leave a comment.
Have a nice day
thanks a lot man ! 🙂
wonderful tutorials
thanx dude, this tutorial is very usefull by newbie.
Great tutorial. Thanks!
Hi,
It is just what i was looking for .
Have a nice day !
Thanks!
Great Tutorial, dude! I wonder if there’s a way to automate it.
seems like a charm… simple and lovely… inshallah/godWilling it will work… my poor old computer doesn’t support that crazy big MS Visual studio and the vc++ express editions is giving me jitters to compile the programs (tons of errors)
Oh thank you so much…… thanks a lot… i had never been able to set up opengl thanks to those creepy compilers and IDE’s… finally i was able to set it up thanks to such a great tutorial….
Great tutorial for a GLUT beginner like me. Thanks a ton!
Thanks 🙂
Needed that for my assignment…
Awesome tutorial. I was gearing up for a big headache of setting up an OpenGL environment… then I find this, and10 minutes later it’s all done! Thanks!!
omg this tutorial saved me, been cracking my head off coz of other tutorials using glAux that never included anymore. 10/10
Thanks for the tutorial. It is very much useful.
You are a genius! I’ve spent months trying to set up OpenGL under windows vista. Thankyou so much!
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if i am trying this tutorial WITHOUT codeblocks, but using just the MinGW environment. do you know the exact syntax to tell gcc to compile your test program? thanks in advance…
I’m afraid I’ve never used MinGW as a command line compiler before so I couldn’t say how that’s done. MinGW is a windows version of the Linux GCC compiler so I’d imagine the commands are quite similar. Try searching for tutorials on MakeFiles and GCC/MinGW Command Line Compiling. I’m sorry I couldn’t be of more help.
WOO! Thank you so much – why did it have to be this complicated? Great documentation.
Cheers and thank your for a wonderfull guide. It was a tremendous help in getting me started on developement with glut 😉
Thanks again dude… i used your tutorial again.. it makes such a cryptic process so intuitive..
Good job, thanks you for article very much!
Hello, i seem to be getting this when i build: “test – Debug” uses an invalid compiler. Skipping…
Nothing to be done.
To make things more weird, everytime I make a project it tells me it cannot be saved because of .
I don’t know what’s going on, but then again when I downloaded glut my “glut.dll” file was named “glut32.dll” I just ignored it and kept going as followed, but I fear this might the root to this mess..
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
because of this error
its not printing for some reason, sorry
Its great!! thanks a lot! but anyway, i face a problem. when i click on ‘Build’, an ‘glut.h’ file opened automatically in the codeblocks with 3 errors. i don’t know why. its so irritating. please help me anyone.
Have another look at how you’re linking in your libraries, check you have them in the order I laid out and in the correct directories. I remember I had this issue once, it was a while ago now though so I’m not 100% on what was causing it. If you find out what is causing it, let me know 🙂
sorry ya.i want to ask about why thic cannot work in my pc?
everytime i run my project,1 new file named ‘glut.h’ will come out and say there is something wrong with my code?
can u tell me why?
thanks a lot.
Great Job Man..!
You solved ALL of my problems, Hats Off 2 u…
Genius! Thx verrrry much ! very Useful tutorials!! Thx again !~~你太棒了！
Thanks very much!
Hey!
Thanks a lot, man! Actually, very precise, indeed. =)
You asked for new operational systems where it worked; I’m on Windows 7 32 and it worked pretty fine. =)
It worked real fast, so.. thanks one more time. =)
superb tutorial dude!!!
really worked a charm… i had been trying for a month before but couldn’t get it working in codeblocks..
guess i had been looking in the wrong places!!
thanks very much…..
finally got to program glut through code blocks..
thanks!!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! By the way when I first tried to build the project it gave me an error: “test1 – Debug uses an invalid compiler. Skipping…” but it turn out i had to go to “Toolchain executables” and change the directory for the compiler because it was set on default as “C:\MinGW” instead of where MinGW was installed to by default which was “C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW”. Again, thanks so much for this tutorial, i have been looking for something exactly like this for a while!!!
Thank you so much this was great tutorial, your the bst man!
great tutorial
Thank you so much! From Russia I think it will be interesting for you to listen! 🙂 You’ve helped me a lot! Great explanation man, thanks once again!