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MSYS2 OpenGL Setup

I am trying to wite OpenGL on MSYS2. I installed mingw-w64 packages like SDL2, glew, glm, mesa etc. But when I try to compile something like;

    gcc main.c -o main -lSDL2 -lGLEW -lGLU -lGL

This is how I compiled things on Linux so i thought it would be similar. but -lGL is giving me problems. I can't find any OpenGL library for MSYS2. I installed mesa as i said but no luck. Should I use Windows version coming with driver and link to that? I don't know how can I do this though.

I copied OpenGL32.dll and lib files from my Windows to mingw64/lib folder and renamed them to libGL but of course this did not work.

Solution

  • If I remember correctly, on Windows these libraries are called differently.

    Try -lglew32 -lglu32 -lopengl32.