Thread: OpenGL in devc++

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    Mipix
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    Question OpenGL in devc++

    Hello.
    I am one litle newb that tryes to learn opengl!

    This, however is not easy when i get 21 errors:

    [Linker error] undefined reference to `ChoosePixelFormat@8'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `SetPixelFormat@12'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glViewport@16'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glMatrixMode@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity@0'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `gluPerspective@32'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glMatrixMode@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity@0'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `wglCreateContext@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `wglMakeCurrent@8'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glClear@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glLoadIdentity@0'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `gluLookAt@72'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glBegin@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glVertex3f@12'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glVertex3f@12'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glVertex3f@12'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `glEnd@0'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `SwapBuffers@4'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `wglMakeCurrent@8'
    [Linker error] undefined reference to `wglDeleteContext@4'

    Does it have something to do with the folowing lines:
    "
    #pragma comment(lib, "libopengl32.lib")
    #pragma comment(lib, "libglu32.lib")
    "
    if it helps here are my path to the lib folder:
    "C:\Dev-Cpp\lib"

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    Registered User Ace Bowers's Avatar
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    Are you sure you included all the header files, those errors seem like they could be related to that. Then again, I'm a newbie also, so I could be wrong.
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    &TH of undefined behavior Fordy's Avatar
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    That pragma relates to VC++...not devc++...link in those libs manually

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    How?

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    *******argv[] - hu? darksaidin's Avatar
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    I'm a newbie and I had exactly the same problem some minutes ago while trying to compile the Open GL tutorial source code.

    I still have no clue why exactly this error occurs, but I found a way to get around it. I opened the OpenGL application template in Dev C++ and then pasted the tutorial source code again. It (almost) worked now.

    So it has to do something with the project settings. I checked this (Project/Project settings) and found this entry under the "Parameters" tab: -lopengl32

    Seems like some parameter to link a library. However there is no library called lopengl32, so I don't exactly understand it. Anyway. The number of error messages decreased a lot and only "glu..." errors remained so I "added" the glu32 library. Funny thing is, this lib gets added with full path and without the - in front of the parameter.

    Anyway, The tutorial compiled. No clue why or how, but it seems to work. I was just about to create a post about this because I'd like to understand why these options are needed. Maybe somebody could answer my question in this post. Seems to be on topic.

    Hope that helps.
    Last edited by darksaidin; 07-21-2003 at 12:15 PM.

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    Talking thank you darksaidin

    Finaly i figured it out!
    You don't need these lines
    #pragma comment(lib, "libopengl32.lib")
    #pragma comment(lib, "libglu32.lib")
    because you should have them in the \project\project options\parameters rollout to get the project to work.

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