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cum-bria
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Reputation: 23

Cannot find freeglut.dll, as suggested in tutorials

I am trying to get into c++/freeglut programming, yet I feel like an absolute monkey. The tutorials refer to a Freeglut.dll file that is in the bin folder. But as I unpacked the newest version of the freeglut binary, I was unable to find the bin folder or the .dll-file.

I was tying to install freeglut in my code::blocks.

I don't know exactly what to do. (Don't make fun of me if my problem is stupid, I am borderline new to programing)

sorry for my bad english, it is not my first language.

I tried to follow many tutorials, but all of them refer to a file I was unable to find.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 718

Answers (2)

M Asadipour
M Asadipour

Reputation: 1

install this package:

pip install OpenGL-glut

Upvotes: -1

Max Meijer
Max Meijer

Reputation: 1729

You probably downloaded the source code. You would still have to compile this source code to get the desired dll file. It could be that your system already has a precompiled package of freeglut

On some systems such as Debian and Ubuntu, it is as simple as running:

apt install freeglut3-dev

There are also binaries for Windows MSVC and MinGW, which do indeed contain a DLL file in the bin folder.

Otherwise you can build from source:

Also if you can't find a suitable package for your system, don't panic; building freeglut from source is very easy, just follow the instructions in README.cmake in the freeglut source.

Upvotes: 0

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