Silencing OpenGL warnings on macOS Mojave

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Alexander picture Alexander · Nov 30, 2018 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

My code is full of warnings like

'glTranslatef' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 - OpenGL API deprecated. (Define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION to silence these warnings)

I did #define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION but that didn't fix the issue. I use freeglut that was installed by using brew install freeglut

Can I silence it somehow?

Answer

Vinícius Ferrão picture Vinícius Ferrão · Apr 12, 2019

You should put #define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION before the OpenGL includes, so you can do something similar to this:

#ifdef __APPLE__
/* Defined before OpenGL and GLUT includes to avoid deprecation messages */
#define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION
#include <OpenGL/gl.h>
#include <GLUT/glut.h>
#else
#include <GL/gl.h>
#include <GL/glut.h>
#endif

Another way to workaround the issue is to pass the option -Wno-deprecated-declarations to the compiler during the compile phase.

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