C Open. GL Setting up Visual Studio. The Visual Studio version for this tutorial will be the 2. RC seems to work with the 2. The glew version will be the 1. The freeglut version will be the 3. The glew library stands for GLExtension Wrangler. Opengl 2.0 Windows 7 32 Bit' title='Opengl 2.0 Windows 7 32 Bit' />At the end of this Open. GL tutorial you will be able to display a window with a white square displayed on a black background. First of all. We are going to use the 3. You have the choice, and it will be specified in the tutorial. Notice that the version is only based on which platform you want to compile for. AMDs awardwinning Catalyst graphics and HD video configuration software delivers unprecedented control of performance and visual quality with AMD Radeon graphics. SketchUp requires a 64bit version of Windows. Also, to install SketchUp, Windows 8. Windows Update. If you plan to create a program to be executed on a 3. Every platform accept 3. And so the 3. 2 bit version will work on every Windows system. Youll need glew headers that could be find on the sourceforge website of the Open. GL Extension Wrangler Library freeglut. Youll also need the freeglut version for Microsoft Visual Studio Click the link inside the part freeglut 3. MSVC Package. The name of the file you have to download is freeglut MSVC 3. Once you have downloaded it, there is a folder named freeglut inside. Extract it and rename it to freeglut 3. Paths and directories for this setup. The general directory for our setup will be The directory where projects are The directory where libraries are Visual Studio. Open it and create an empty project File New Project Templates Visual C Empty Project. Then write Name Shapes. DLocation C devvisual studio cSolution Create a new solution. Solution name Badprog. Tutorial. OK Finish. True Detective S01e06 Download. Your Shapes. 2D project has been created into your Badprog. Tutorial solution. Lets add a main. Right click your project Add New Item Visual C C File write the name main. Add. Setting all configurations. Right click your Shapes. D project Properties On the top left there is a drop down menu Configuration Select All Configurations instead of DebugIncluding header files includesRight click your Shapes. D project Properties Configuration Properties CC General Additional Include Directories Click it. On the right there is a drop down menu, click lt Edit. A new window has appeared Additional Include Directories. Click the New Line icon Click the browse button Then select the two following folders C devlibglew 1. C devlibfreeglut 3. Click OK Apply. Including libraries. Library folders. Right click your Shapes. D project Properties Configuration Properties Linker General Additional Library Directories Click it. On the right there is a drop down menu, click lt Edit. A new window has appeared Additional Library Directories. Click the New Line icon Click the browse button Then select the two following folders For the 6. C devlibglew 1. Releasex. C devlibfreeglut 3. For the 3. 2 bit version. C devlibglew 1. ReleaseWin. C devlibfreeglut 3. Click OK Apply. Library files. Right click your Shapes. D project Properties Configuration Properties Linker Input Additional Dependencies Click it. On the right there is a drop down menu, click lt Edit. A new window has appeared Additional Dependencies. Click the white area and write freeglut. Click OK Apply OK. Your Visual Studio IDE is now ready to play with Open. GL Testing the setup. To test the setup, lets code the most basic code Hello. World that you can write with Open. GL. include lt GLglew. GLfreeglut. h. Vertex. The point 0. 0, 0. The 2f suffix means 2 values of float type x and y. Mevoid. gl. ClearGLCOLORBUFFERBIT. BeginGLPOLYGON. Vertex. Vertex. 2f0. 5, 0. Vertex. 2f0. 5, 0. Vertex. 2f0. 0, 0. Init argc, argv. Init. Display. ModeGLUTSINGLE. Init. Window. Size3. Init. Window. Position5. Create. WindowBadpro. G Hello world D     message displayed on top bar window. Display. Funcdisplay. Me. glut. Main. Loop. On the Visual Studios top menu there is a dropdown menu with x. Click the black tiny triangle on the right of the x. Configuration Manager. A new window has appeared Configuration Manager. On the right select x. New. A new window has appeared New Solution Platform. On the right click the the Active solution platform dropdown menu and select Type or select the new platform x. Copy settings from x. EmptyClick OK. You could now close the Configuration Manager and as you can see the platform is now specified as x. And you could easily click either x. Before building it, lets copy not move the. For the 6. 4 bit version. Copy C devlibglew 1. Releasex. 64glew. C devlibfreeglut 3. To the following directory C devvisual studio cBadprog. Tutorialx. 64Debug. For the 3. 2 bit version. Copy C devlibglew 1. ReleaseWin. 32glew. C devlibfreeglut 3. To the following directory C devvisual studio cBadprog. TutorialDebug. Building the project. On the Visual Studios top menu, select either x. If there is no error, right click the Shapes. Convert Udf To Mp4 Software Player. D project Debug Start new instance. If all is OK, you should see a black window with a white square. Possible Errors. If you had some errors like these ones, its because you try to play with a different version from the one specified in the setup configuration. For example if you have set up the configuration with the 6. Same thing for the 3. So double check the paths youve just entered in the setup configuration. Here the errors. All packages are already installed and there is nothing to restore. Nu. Get package restore finished. Build started Project Shapes. D, Configuration Debug Win. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Init. Window. Position8 referenced in function main. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Init. Window. Size8 referenced in function main. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Init. Display. Mode4 referenced in function main. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Main. Loop0 referenced in function main. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Display. Func4 referenced in function main. LNK2. 01. 9 unresolved external symbol impglut. Init. With. Exit1. InitATEXITHACK8. LNK2. Create. Window. With. Exit8 referenced in function glut. Create. WindowATEXITHACK4. C devlibfreeglut 3. LNK4. 27. 2 library machine type x. X8. 6. 1 C devvisual studio cBadprog. TutorialDebugShapes. D. exe fatal error LNK1. Build 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up to date, 0 skipped Conclusion. Now that your Visual Studio has been set up, you could start creating Open. GL applications. Well done, you did it.