Using GCC (MinGW) to compile OpenGL on Windows

Question

I\'ve searched on google and haven\'t been able to come up with a solution.

I would like to compile some OpenGL programming using GCC. In the GL folder in GCC I have th

Answer 1

You probably want to run gcc like this:

gcc -g -Wall hello_gl.c -lopengl32 -lglu32 -lfreeglut

Unfortunately GLUT does not come preinstalled on Windows.

GLUT is a library that takes care of the (platform specific) job of creating a window and graphic context for you. Many OpenGL samples use it.

The official GLUT port to Win32 is available here but it's a bit dated.

I suggest you use the compatible freeglut library instead. You can use this tutorial for setting up freeglut with Mingw32