Compiling minimal GLEW application under Cygwin

Question

Let\'s consider the following program and try to compile it under Cygwin:

#include 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    glutInit(&argc,         


        

Answer 1

Just to make sure we're talking about the same issues, here's the message I used to get.

$ g++ -o glew_test.exe glew_test.cpp -lglut32 -lglew32
c:\Users\Fredrik\Users\Fredrik\AppAppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0x1c): undefined reference to `__glutInitWithExit'
c:\Users\Fredrik\AppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0x37): undefined reference to `__glutCreateWindowWithExit'
c:\Users\Fredrik\AppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0x53): undefined reference to `__glutCreateMenuWithExit'
c:\Users\Fredrik\AppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0x9e): undefined reference to `glutInitDisplayMode'
c:\Users\Fredrik\AppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to `glutInitWindowPosition'
c:\Users\Fredrik\AppData\Local\Temp/ccgSNdfr.o:
glew_test.cpp:(.text+0xc6): undefined reference to `glutInitWindowSize'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

The following pages helped me with this issue.

• www.mingw.org/node/28
• glew.sourceforge.net/install.html

Basically I had to define _STDCALL_SUPPORTED and _M_IX86 at the beginning of the file and include windows.h before glew.h

Then i used the flags -lglut32 -lglew32

If you want to try it out, here's the source as well:

#define _STDCALL_SUPPORTED
#define _M_IX86
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    glutInit(&argc, argv);
    glutCreateWindow("MM 2004-05");
    glewInit();
    if (glewIsSupported("GL_VERSION_2_0"))
        printf("Ready for OpenGL 2.0\n");
    else {
        printf("OpenGL 2.0 not supported\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

Note that the window, for some reason, is needed for the OpenGL2.0 test.