Undefined reference to 'imp____glewEnableVertexAttribArray'

Question

I\'m trying to compile a program I am doing from a tutorial which is written in C++ and open gl 2.1. However, I don\'t like FreeGLUT so I decided to change the windowing pro

Answer 1

Undefined references (name mangling) of the *_imp__* variety are caused by an attempt to link against a library compiled by / for Visual Studio / MSVC.

The solution is to download binaries or compile for your specific platform (often this comes up in relation to mingw32).