OpenGL/GLUT on a PC

Myrto Serafetinidou

I have managed to set up openGL for windows but I'm not sure that my solution will work for everyone. From all the 'pain' I have gone through I'm afraid that it may be a very different solution for each person. However, this is what I have done:

You need Microsoft Visual C++ because all the OpenGL and GLUT files are compiled to work only with this product and it is very difficult to find other versions.

OpenGL (and glu) should come as standard with most Windows 95 PCs but if not it can be downloaded from Microsoft.

In my PC I had most trouble getting GLUT to work and the only version
which worked was the new (very recent) beta version of GLUT3.7.

Unfortunately, I cannot recall the site from which I downloaded the zip file but I still have a copy of it so if you would like I could send it to you and people could access it from there.

After that it is easy, you can build a project as normal using the Win32 option in MS Visual C++ and the files and libraries get included automatically.