PyOpenGL glutInit NullFunctionError

Question

I am running Anaconda Python 2.7 on a Win7 x64 machine and used

pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate

at the Anaconda command line to i

Answer 1

According to the link below the problem was with the glut installation rather than pip install. It seems glut files are not part of PyOpenGL or PyOpenGL_accelerate package. You have to download them seperately.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/39181193/7030177

Windows user can use the link below to download glut as mentioned in the given link. ftp://ftp.sgi.com/opengl/glut/glut3.html.old#windows

Linux Users can just install glut using the following command:

sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

Hope this helps :)