MAC OpenGL shader error: “version '150' is not supported ”

Question

I follow the book \"OpenGL SuperBible 5th Edition\" to study openGL, the capture 6th demo to create shader by hand all not work. Like the demo of \"ShadedTriangle\", to create

Answer 1

On Mac you need to tell OpenGL which version to use before creating the window.

This answer explains how to do it with GLFW:

I'm still searching for a way to do this with GLUT.

something like this:

glfw.window_hint(glfw.CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4)
glfw.window_hint(glfw.CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 1)
glfw.window_hint(glfw.OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPAT, GL_TRUE)
glfw.window_hint(glfw.OPENGL_PROFILE, glfw.OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE)
window = glfw.create_window(800,600,"My OpenGL Window", None, None)