Linker error with glew when library is statically linked

Question

I am trying to build an opengl project in Visual Studio 2012. I wanted to statically include glew library, so I built it from source and copied the generated glew32sd.lib to my

Answer 1

You have two problems in the linker settings:

• You can link against the statically linked version of glew or the dynamically linked one, but never against both. So if you want glew statically linked remove glew32d.lib (or glew32.lib in release mode) from the additional dependencies.

• Glew requires you to also link agains the opengl library. Add OpenGL32.lib to the additional dependencies.