Glew in VS 2010: unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

Question

I am learning OpenGL by following the redbook. When I come to around page 90, I need use glGenBuffers(); Then I need install \"glew\". By following the steps in www.cs.uiowa

Answer 1

Since it's not mentioned already, my problem was that I was linking against the static version of glew (glew32s.lib), but I hadn't defined the GLEW_STATIC preprocessor symbol (so the header I was compiling against effectively didn't match the library I was linking against).