Glew in VS 2010: unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

Question

I am learning OpenGL by following the Redbook. When I come to around page 90, I need use glGenBuffers(); Then I need to install "glew".

By following the steps in here.

I download glew.zip from glew.sourceforge.net/ and unpack the files.

I put

• glew.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include
• glew32.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib, and
• glew32.dll in C:\Windows\System32

After that, I build my project in VS 2010 and in Linker->input, I add dependencies glew32.lib.

But when I build it, I have an error:

unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

Answer 1

I need to compile the source code of glew.

How to compile it, see: OpenGL: How to compile glew32.dll from source file.

Then you will get glew32d.dll and glew32d.lib.

• Put glew32d.dll in c:\windows\sysWOW64 (I also put it in system and system32).
• Put glew32d.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib
• Put glew.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include

Then it will work.