In my project I want to use a freeglut library from the unofficial opengl sdk.
I used Premake to generate build files for vs2010. Then I built all libraries (debug). In my project I set Additional Include Directories, Additional Library Directories for the freeglut. In additional dependencies I added freeglutD.lib.
In the code I just include a freeglut header. When I want to run the program I get an error:
>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'freeglut.lib'.
The freeglutD.lib is the only file in sdk/freeglut/lib. There is no freeglut.dll and freeglut.lib in sdk.
Earlier I was using freeglut 2.8.0 MSVC Package from link which is linked dynamically (contain freeglut.dll) and everything works fine.
What is wrong ?
Answer
My guess is that you forgot these lines from the documentation on using the SDK:
You will also need to add some #defines to your command line. These are:
- FREEGLUT_STATIC
- _LIB
- FREEGLUT_LIB_PRAGMAS=0
You need that FREEGLUT_STATIC to let GLUT know that it's linking statically. Otherwise it looks for a DLL.