'glCreateShader' was not declared in this scope?

Question

Why am I getting these errors?

error: \'GL_VERTEX_SHADER\' was not declared in this scope
error: \'glCreateShader\' was not declared in thi

Answer 1

You need to either use an OpenGL loading library to load OpenGL functions, or manually load the functions yourself. You can't just use gl.h and expect to get everything.