Thread: How to Install Glut?

Ok, complete nub here, but i have not installed a bigger API as of yet so im clueless here lol.

I found this link:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libr...s.html#windows

now i at first thought dev c++ had all the popular libraries included (cept DX), however, it does not have the header file for Glut, so i went in search.

From that link, which file exactly do i dl? I got both 3.7 source and plain dll file. and i should be able to find where to put the dll's and whatnot, from whats already around lol. But i just want to make sure i am using the right files.

Can anyone help? Someone with Dev C++ Experience would be of help too, thx

(and sorry for such an idiotic question lol)

Well i put the DLL's in my system folder, include in dev c++'s include folder (\gl), and the lib files in the lib folder, all fairly self explanitory. But i am getting an odd error when trying to run some tut programs that use GLUT.

43 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\gl\glut.h redeclaration of C++ built-in type ` wchar_t'
Makefile.win [Build Error] [main.o] Error 1

and line 43 is

typedef unsigned short wchar_t;

So what exactly is the problem, it has to be something i am doing cuz an unedited header file that everyone is using wouldent have a huge blatent bug right?

Or is there something wrong with their syntax (i havent used typedef much lol).

Well please help, just wanna get glut workin lol.

Try out Perspective's Nibbles program which uses GLUT. There's a how-to in that thread for dev-cpp.

Worked!!! Thank you so much!

It was a combination of umm, quirks of Dev C++ if you will, and the tutorials i was using had the include files in the wrong order, one being from gamedev.net, so i assume it was just dev c++ again.

Any thanks a ton