I don't want to come across as a noob or someone who wants other people to do their work for them. I've been trying to learn OpenGL for maybe a month, but I can't get GLUT to work, and the OpenGL code is just a little bit hard to understand. I'm also one of those people who like to know what things do as soon as he sees something new, so the books I have on OpenGL don't really help, either. Basically, what I'm asking for is someone - anyone! - to help me get started with OpenGL. That's all, and once I can start using basic OpenGL - and getting GLUT to work - I'll probably be good learning on my own once again for a while. If there is anyone out there who can possibly help, please let me know. And thanks for reading this far.

Okay, we need some more information if we are to help you properly.

1) What do you mean GLUT doesn't work? Does it crash? Doesn't link? What?

2) What compiler are you using? Visual Studio?

You need to copy the glut32.dll into C:\windows\system, you need to put the headers and .lib file in the correct folders for the compiler to find. You then need to tell the compiler to use the lib and then you #include the headers in the source.

1) Well, a few months ago I was using the NeHe tutorials, and for some weird reason, after Tutorial 5, it had a lot of linker errors. I could still compile the previous ones just fine, and I'm quite sure I had everything linked properly, with the .dll in the right place.

That was a few months ago, and as of opening up a preprogrammed source example of GLUT and compiling it, it seems it's compiling fine - but then again, I did say that Tutorials 1-5 were compiling fine, but 6 came up with a lot of linker errors...

EDIT: Scratch that, the preprogrammed thing was a FreeGLUT thing, and I have no idea how similar or different that is from GLUT (other than it being free, of course). And I didn't tell you what OS I'm using: Windows.

2) I'm using Dev-C++.