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    OpenGL- Hard to get started

    I'm trying to get this blasted openGL thing to work! I downloaded the glut source zip from the opengl site, but I have no idea what any of that code does. I don't even know if I'm supposed to be using glut in the first place! Does anyone have a step by step tutorial on how to get to the stage where I can start coding with my compiler with OpenGL? Links would be nice too, if you have them. I have many compilers, so go with any of these if you feel like helping me. The opengl site doesn't have any tutorials, and if it does, I have no idea where they are.

    Turbo C
    Turbo C++
    LCC Win32
    Dev-C++
    Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 (ugh)
    Borland's command line C++ compiler.

    By the way I intend to use C, not C++.
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    Nehe has great tutorials, although they are not really glut (you can download glut source to at least some tutorials).

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    That site is great if you have OpenGL already set up for coding. All the set-up tutorials are for Mac and Solaris, they have a windows one but it doesn't tell you how to set it up.
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    Go check the site again. The tutorials for Windows start after the MacOS and Solaris ones. The first is labelled "Setting Up An OpenGL Window".

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    Also here is another site more dedicated to glut.

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    That window tutorial doesn't tell me what to download and what to do with what I download for opengl. It just tells me what I need to do to VC++ to use opengl and making windows.
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    download the red book and black book from opengl. there links on in the stick at the top of this forum

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    Those links are broken apparently. If anyone has working links to those two books please PM them to me so i can edit the post and insert the fixed links.

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    Boy you stink, go take a shower before you continue to code. Better do your laundry and spray your chair too.

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    Or hell why not get them stright from the source:
    red: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...1.0/index.html
    blue: http://www.opengl.org/documentation/...ook/index.html

    Sorry it was blue not black.

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    thank you thantos, annnnnnnnnnnd.....


    fixed.

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    I recommend the Red Book than NeHe's tutorials. They are more in depth.

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    Those are all good and very rich in information but I can't use them until I am at that stage. I don't have anything set up and I know you can't just jump in and start coding. It's like there is this missing tutorial that explains what I need to know, and all other tutorials start just past that point.
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    Well what ARE you having trouble with? Are you having trouble setting up a window? Are you using WinAPI, GLUT, SDL,etc ?

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    I'm having trouble with getting everything set up. What do I download from what site, assuming I am starting from scratch? Then what do I do with what I download? I have the zip files for the glut source, and some other zip that says glut-3.7.6-bin which has a dll, a lib and some .c files. I have those two zips, but what do I do with them? How do I install what they contain and use them?
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