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[aerlfredith]

Hi,

I'm trying to install freeglut on my pc and my testApp gets linkers errors which even after severel tries to fix i have not been able to fix.
.lib and header are inside my VS directory/VC/lib and /VC/include, the dll is inside the windows directory and still i get


1>App.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__glutLeaveMainLoop@0 referenced in function "public: void __thiscall App::Keyboard(unsigned int,int,int)" (?Keyboard@App@@QAEXIHH@Z)
1>Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__glutSetOption@8 referenced in function _main
1>Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__glutInitContextProfile@4 referenced in function _main
1>Main.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__glutInitContextVersion@8 referenced in function _main

the other glut fucntions used in normal glut (without the free) do NOT throw any errors

does anyone have any suggestions
Thanks

me

[dpadam450]

You have to tell the program where the .lib is to link it. It's not going to scan every .lib in that folder to find those 4 functions. If using visual studio, properties->c++->linker->input. Something like that, you will have to add the name/path of the .lib there.

[aerlfredith]

thanks for the reply but this was my input field allready :s

glloadD.lib;glimgD.lib;glutilD.lib;glmeshD.lib;glut32.lib;freeglutD.lib;glu32.lib;opengl32.lib;gdi32.lib;winmm.lib;user32.lib;%(AdditionalDependencies)

all the D,s arefor the debug libraries, i got them from compiling the open gl SDK

[aerlfredith]

deleted the additional library link to the open gl SDK, kept the intput field the same now no more errors,...
an explanation would still be nice

[dpadam450]

Put in "xxxxx.lib" and see if it complains about not finding it. This will let you know that it isn't complaining about those because it did find them.