Compiling with GLFW3, linker errors 'undefined reference'

Question

Having a minimal example using GLFW3:

#include 

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    glfwInit();
}

Answer 1

In Mac OS X, glfw3 uses Cocoa (NSGL) for its OpenGL context management. glfw2 used Carbon (CGL/AGL, depending on fullscreen or windowed mode).

NSGL is more robust, but it is built upon an Objective C framework (Cocoa). In order for your software to work correctly with glfw3, you should include the Cocoa framework.

Answer 2

If you are using the static library version of GLFW, add it and the Cocoa, OpenGL, IOKit and CoreVideo frameworks to the project as dependencies.