OpenGL: How to compile glew32.dll from source file

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NoviceCai picture NoviceCai · Jan 17, 2011 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

I download the glew source file from http://glew.sourceforge.net/. In the readme file, it says I should use \build\vc6.0\glew.dsw to comple the DLL. But there are four projects after I open it in VS 2010. When I compile them, 2 of them failed to compile.

Thanks.

Answer

NoviceCai picture NoviceCai · Jan 17, 2011

Ok. I figured it out. Just open the the file in glew.dsw in VS 2010. There are four projects. Compile glew_shared, you will get glew32d.dll. Compile glew_static, you will get glew32d.lib.

just ignore the other two.

glew32d.dll and glew32d.lib works fine in VS 2010.

This also answer my own question in

Glew in VS 2010: unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

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