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

1.50 requires OpenGL 3.2 support. Unless you can get a newer driver (or a GPU), I think you're out of luck on this one.

Answer 2

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)

Answer 3

macOS' system GLUT does not have the capability of creating an OpenGL 3+ context.

FreeGLUT provides a way to do it, taken from here:

glutInitContextVersion(3,2); /* or later versions, core was introduced only with 3.2 */
glutInitContextProfile(GLUT_CORE_PROFILE);

Or you can take @izzy's advice and use GLFW.