compiled program cannot find freeglut.dll

Question

I\'m new to this site, and relatively new to programming. I\'ve been doing some C++ programming for a while using Visual Studio 2010, and I wanted to get into OpenGL, so I bough

Answer 1

Try putting the DLL in the same folder as your exe file. The advice to put it in Windows\System32 predates a lot of newer Windows security restrictions.