compiling OpenGL program GL/glew.h missing

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Ataraxia picture Ataraxia · Apr 6, 2013 · Viewed 61.8k times · Source

I installed OpenGL onto my computer running Linux Mint following the instructions on this tutorial. I am trying to compile a program that uses OpenGL, but I'm getting a compile error: fatal error: GL/glew.h: No such file or directory. I check the /usr/include/GL folder, and glew.h is indeed missing. I don't know why it's missing, because I did the command sudo apt-get install libglew1.5 and it gives the output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libglew1.5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 465 not upgraded.

Why is the glew.h file missing?

Answer

datenwolf picture datenwolf · Apr 6, 2013

libglew is just the library, but not the development files (headers). You need to install those separately. The package name on Debian based systems is libglew-dev and for fedora(and possibly its derivatives) it is glew-devel

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