OpenGL tutorial

Setup

First install glad here: https://glad.dav1d.de/

• Choose C/C++.
• API gl Version 3.3.
• Profile Compatability Core.
• Under options ensure Generate a loader is ticked.
• Then click generate and download the zip file.

When you've unzipped glad follow these steps:

• Copy KHR and glad to your compilers include files.
• Within your compilers lib files copy over libglad.a.
• Now finally, add glad.cto your projects source files with your main.cpp file.

Now download GLFW here: https://www.glfw.org/download

• Under Windows pre-compiled binaries select your version to download in my case its the 64-bit version.
• Now unzip this folder.
• Navigate to liv-vc2022 as its the most recent version and copy the glfw3.dll file into your compilers bin folder.
• Then copy over the .lib files into your compilers lib folder.

Structure

Project
│ │ └── include
│ │                 ├── KHR
│ │                 │        └── khrplatform.h
│ │                 └── glad
│ │                            └── glad.h
│ └──lib
│           └──only files: .lib (Windows)
│                                   .a (Linux, lib static)
│                                   .so (Linus, lib shared)
│
│
main.cpp
glad.c

Now within your CMakeLists.txt file write the following code

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.28)
project(OpenGL-tutorial)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)

# Add executable
add_executable(Graphics main.cpp
        glad.c
)

target_link_libraries(Graphics -lfreeglut -lglew32 -lopengl32 glfw3 libglfw3.a)

Graphics Is the parent folder to OpenGL-tutorial.

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