freeglut.dll missing

c++ opengl freeglut
harryprotist picture harryprotist · Jan 4, 2012 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I am reading the OpenGl superbible, and on the very first triangle program it will not run. the program compiles just fine but when i run it, it gave me the error message freeglut.dll is missing from your computer. I downloaded that and put it in the correct directory, and it said that MSVCR71.dll was missing, so i downloaded that and put it in the correct directory and it began to say "The procedure entry point __glutCreateWindowWithExit could not be located in the dynamic link library freeglut.dll." does anyone know what i am doing wrong? i followed all the directions that the book told me.

Answer

Lightness Races in Orbit picture Lightness Races in Orbit · Jan 4, 2012

You can't just grab random DLLs off the interwebtubes and dump them on your PC. There are versioning issues to consider that you're completely bypassing. It should have been a hint when the MSVC runtime dependency didn't link up.

Install the freeGLUT package properly, in its entirety.

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