How do you install GLUT and OpenGL in Visual Studio 2012

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I just installed Visual Studio 2012 today  and I was wondering how can you install GLUT and OpenGL on the platform

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Download and install Visual C   Express   Download and extract  freeglut 2 8 0 MSVC Package  from http   www transmissionzero co uk software freeglut-devel   Installation for Windows 32 bit     a  Copy all files from include GL folder and paste into C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0A Include gl folder    b  Copy all files from lib folder and paste into C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 0A Lib folder    c  Copy freeglut dll and paste into C  windows system32 folder

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For an easy and appropriate way of doing this  first download a prepackaged release of freeglut from here  Then read its Readme txt  I copied some important parts of that package here       Create a folder on your PC which is readable by all users  for example    C  Program Files Common Files MSVC freeglut     on a typical Windows system  Copy the    lib     and    include     folders from this zip archive to that location     freeglut DLL can be placed in the same folder as your application        Open up the project properties  and select    All Configurations     this is necessary to ensure our changes are applied for both debug and release builds   Open up the    general    section under    C C       and configure the    include     folder you created above as an    Additional Include Directory     If you have more than one GLUT package which contains a    glut h    file  it   s important to ensure that the freeglut include folder appears above all other GLUT include folders     Open up the    general    section under    Linker     and configure the    lib     folder you created above as an    Additional Library Directory

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Download the GLUT library  At first step Copy the glut32 dll and paste it in C  Windows System32 folder Second step copy  glut h file and paste it in C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio VC include folder and third step copy glut32 lib and paste it in c  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio VC lib folder   Now you can create visual c   console application project and include glut h header file then you can write code for GLUT project  If you are using 64 bit windows machine then path and glut library may be different but process is similar

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Create a empty win32 console application c   Download a package called NupenGL Core from Nuget package manager  PM-  Install-Package nupengl core   except glm everything is configured create Source cpp and start working    Happy Coding

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the instructions for Vs2012  To Install FreeGLUT   Download  freeglut 2 8 1 MSVC Package  from http   www transmissionzero co uk software freeglut-devel  Extract the compressed file freeglut-MSVC zip to a folder freeglut Inside freeglut folder     On 32bit versions of windows  copy all files in include GL folder to C  Program Files Windows Kits 8 0 Include um gl  copy all files in lib folder to C  Program Files Windows Kits 8 0 Lib win8 um   note  Lib freeglut lib in a folder goes into x86   copy freeglut dll to C  windows system32  On 64bit versions of windows  not 100  sure but try   copy all files in include GL folder to C  Program Files x86  Windows Kits 8 0 Include um gl  copy all files in lib folder to C  Program Files x86  Windows Kits 8 0 Lib win8 um   note  Lib freeglut lib in a folder goes into x86   copy freeglut dll to C  windows SysWOW64

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Yes visual studio 2012 express has built in opengl library  the headers are in the folder C  Program Files Windows Kits 8 0 Include um gl and the lib files are in folder C  Program Files Windows Kits 8 0 Lib win8 um x86  amp  C  Program Files Windows Kits 8 0 Lib win8 um x64  but the problem is integrating the glut with the existing one   i downloaded the library from http   www xmission com  nate glut glut-3 7 6-bin zip   and deployed the files into       gl and      lib win8 um x32  and the dll to  system  windows folders respectively   Hope so this will solve the problem

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This is GLUT installation instruction  Not free glut  First download this 118 KB GLUT package from Here  Extract the downloaded ZIP file and make sure you find the following     glut h      glut32 lib      glut32 dll   If you have a 32 bits operating system  place glut32 dll to C  Windows System32   if your operating system is 64 bits  place it to  C  Windows SysWOW64    to your system directory   Place glut h  C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 12 VC include GL   NOTE  12 here refers to your VS version it may be 8 or 10   If you do not find VC and following directories   go on create it   Place glut32 lib to C  Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 12 VC lib   Now  open visual Studio and    Under Visual C    select Empty Project or your already existing project  Go to Project -  Properties  Select  All Configuration  from Configuration dropdown menu on top left corner Select Linker -  Input  Now right click on  Additional Dependence  found on Right panel and click Edit   now type     opengl32 lib      glu32 lib      glut32 lib    NOTE  Each  lib in new line   That s it    You have successfully installed OpenGL   Go on and run your program   Same installation instructions aplies to freeglut files with the header files in the GL folder  lib in the lib folder  and dll in the System32 folder

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For Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community GLUT installation -   Download the header  dll s and lib files fro glutdlls37beta  linked in here  Paste glut h in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community VC Tools MSVC  14 11 25503  include GL Create the GL folder if not present already  The  thing  may differ  Paste glut lib in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community VC Tools MSVC  14 11 25503  lib x64  Paste glut32 lib in C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community VC Tools MSVC  14 11 25503  lib x86  The  thing  may differ  Paste glut32 dll in C  Windows System32  Paste glut dll and glut32 dll in C  Windows SysWOW64  Follow Vishwanath gowda k s answer next  Go to Project -  Properties All Configuration option - Linker -  Input -  Additional Dependencies- edit down arrow on the right end  Type-  opengl32 lib glu32 lib glut32 lib Hit Ok- apply

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OpenGL should be present already - it will probably be Freeglut   GLUT that is missing   GLUT is very dated now and not actively supported - so you should certainly be using Freeglut instead  You won t have to change your code at all  and a few additional features become available   You ll find pre-packaged sets of files from here  http   freeglut sourceforge net index php download If you don t see the  lib  folder  it s because you didn t download the pre-packaged set   Martin Payne s Windows binaries  is posted at above link and works on Windows 8 1 with Visual Studio 2013 at the time of this writing   When you download these you ll find that the Freeglut folder has three subfolders  - bin folder  this contains the dll files for runtime - include  the header files for compilation - lib  contains library files for compilation linking  Installation instructions usually suggest moving these files into the visual studio folder and the Windows system folder  It is best to avoid doing this as it makes your project less portable  and makes it much more difficult if you ever need to change which version of the library you are using  old projects might suddenly stop working  etc    Instead  apologies for any inconsistencies  I m basing these instructions on VS2010     - put the freeglut folder somewhere else  e g  C  dev - Open your project in Visual Studio - Open project properties - There should be a tab for VC   Directories  here you should add the appropriate include and lib folders  e g   C  dev freeglut include and C  dev freeglut lib  -  Almost  Final step is to ensure that the opengl lib file is actually linked during compilation  Still in project properties  expand the linker menu  and open the input tab  For Additional Dependencies add opengl32 lib  you would assume that this would be linked automatically just by adding the include GL gl h to your project  but for some reason this doesn t seem to be the case   At this stage your project should compile OK  To actually run it  you also need to copy the freeglut dll files into your project folder

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OpenGL is bundled with Visual Studio  You just need to install GLUT package  freeglut would be fine   which can be found in NuGet  Open your solution  click TOOLS- gt NuGet Package Manager- gt Package Manager Console to open a NuGet console  type Install-Package freeglut  -- For VS 2013  use nupengl core package instead  -- It s 2020 now  Use VCPKG

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Use NupenGL Nuget package  It is actively updated and works with VS 2013 and 2015  whereas Freeglut Nuget package works with earlier versions of Visual Studio only  as of 10 14 2015    Also  follow this blog post for easy instructions on working with OpenGL and Glut in VS

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