Compiling Simple static OpenGL 4.0 program using MinGW, freeglut and glew

Question

The problem is in the title, I\'ll try to list what I\'ve already tried and so on below.

First off, in my understanding, in order to use OpenGL 4.0 on windows you mu

Answer 1

Argument order is significant with gcc linker options.

Try this:

${G++} -DFREEGLUT_STATIC -DGLEW_STATIC -m32 main.cpp -o main.exe -I ${ROOTPATH}/include -L ${ROOTPATH}/lib -lopengl32 -lwinmm -lgdi32 -lglew32 -static -lfreeglut_static 

Also, I don't think there's a double-dash --static option, just -static.

And on win32 you're going to need a successful glewInit() before your glEnableVertexAttribArray() function pointer will be valid. After checking your core version and/or extension, of course :)