Hello,

That's the first time I have difficulties with setting up OpenGL.

I just bought a new laptop with windows 8 64bit and I am using Visual Studio 2012.

I did the usual procedure with installing a 3d party lib just as I installed them on my previous PCs:

1. Download freeglut, glew, glfw, glut, sdl

2. Copy headers into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include"

3. Copy libs into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\lib"

4. Copy dll's into "C:\Windows\SysWOW64"

Then I downloaded the project I was developing on my other PC (was developed under windows 8 32bit if that's of any importance) and it would'n compile. The compiler threw me the following linking error:

Update: I managed to run the simple projet but I cannot run my old project. It might be some problem with the platform change ? Can this be fixed ?

Which platform are you building on and are you linking the correct libraries for that platform?

A lot of people seem to make the mistake of switching their project over to x64 in MSVC just because they are now on a 64 bit machine. In practically all cases you will want to stay with regular x86/Win32 applications. If you do switch you will also have to get/build all your libraries anew. You cannot link x86 libraries into a x64 program or the reverse. MSVC does not help there because it silently ignores all libraries for the wrong platform. This causes the annoying scenario of getting linker errors of libraries you believe you are linking.

I am building on windows 8 x64. I did download all the libraries for 64bit version.

If I get it right - because previously I've built my project on 32bit system with 32bit libraries and now I am trying to use it with 64bit version libs ,that's why I am getting these linking errors.

So I have 2 options:
1. Replace all my x64 version libraries with x86

2. Continue using x64 libraries and make the whole project from scratch (that's not really good idea)

Right ?

OK, I've replaced the libs, now compiles and fails at runtime: "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)"

EDIT: Managed to run it, this time it stops responding. I think that some lib bugs it but not sure which. I have no problems running other tutorials from the internet.

Can you help me with the debugging process of that thing ?

No one can remotely help you there. Just attach the debugger and debug it as you would any other problem. If you do no know how to debug yet, you have to make it your single most important priority to learn it.

That said, I would advise against just turning any non-trivial x86 project into an x64 project. There is far too much that can systematically cause problems when x64-compatibility was not a design decision from the start.

Earlier this morning I found out what caused the problem. It is bug with the GLEW library.

I had to change GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE with GLFW_OPENGL_COMPAT_PROFILE.

glfwOpenWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_COMPAT_PROFILE);

now it's working and everything seems OK.