Compiling OpenGL SOIL on Ubuntu

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Dustin Jensen · Apr 21, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

How do I link SOIL for a OpenGL in Ubuntu?

EDIT:

I figured out the issue, my professor showed the locate cmd in the terminal and I was able to find where I had to get the .h from.

If anyone else has this issue for me it was,

#include "SOIL/SOIL.h"

and to link -lSOIL when compiling

Answer

First download the SOIL.h header file from its website

Place the header file in your project directory and put the line

#include "SOIL.h"

in your project file. After that you have to install the soil library to use -lSOIL. To install the library use the command

 sudo apt-get install libsoil-dev

Now compile the project using gcc along with -lSOIL