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

for python 2.7, PyopenGL needs vc++ 9 compiler, download and install it.

then:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

pip install image

pip install numpy

pip install PyOpenGL PyOpenGL_accelerate

I downloaded freeglut

unzipped it and added bin directory to the path when calling: glutCreateWindow("sometitle") changed to glutCreateWindow(b'sometitle')

and got it run on windows 7