MAC OpenGL shader error: “version '150' is not supported ”

Question

I follow the book \"OpenGL SuperBible 5th Edition\" to study openGL, the capture 6th demo to create shader by hand all not work. Like the demo of \"ShadedTriangle\", to create

Answer 1

macOS' system GLUT does not have the capability of creating an OpenGL 3+ context.

FreeGLUT provides a way to do it, taken from here:

glutInitContextVersion(3,2); /* or later versions, core was introduced only with 3.2 */
glutInitContextProfile(GLUT_CORE_PROFILE);

Or you can take @izzy's advice and use GLFW.