I have installed all of the libraries like glfw and glew.
When I run the following code I get an error from the line glGenVertexArrays(1, &VertexArrayID); complaining about Access violation. I know this error is caused by a NULL pointer, but my GLuint shouldn't be.
#include <GL/glew.h>
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
#include <gl/GL.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
static const GLfloat g_vertex_buffer_data[] = {
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f, // triangle 1 : begin
-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, // triangle 1 : end
1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f, // triangle 2 : begin
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f, // triangle 2 : end
1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f,-1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
-1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f,
1.0f,-1.0f, 1.0f
};
static const GLfloat g_color_buffer_data[] = {
0.583f, 0.771f, 0.014f,
0.609f, 0.115f, 0.436f,
0.327f, 0.483f, 0.844f,
0.822f, 0.569f, 0.201f,
0.435f, 0.602f, 0.223f,
0.310f, 0.747f, 0.185f,
0.597f, 0.770f, 0.761f,
0.559f, 0.436f, 0.730f,
0.359f, 0.583f, 0.152f,
0.483f, 0.596f, 0.789f,
0.559f, 0.861f, 0.639f,
0.195f, 0.548f, 0.859f,
0.014f, 0.184f, 0.576f,
0.771f, 0.328f, 0.970f,
0.406f, 0.615f, 0.116f,
0.676f, 0.977f, 0.133f,
0.971f, 0.572f, 0.833f,
0.140f, 0.616f, 0.489f,
0.997f, 0.513f, 0.064f,
0.945f, 0.719f, 0.592f,
0.543f, 0.021f, 0.978f,
0.279f, 0.317f, 0.505f,
0.167f, 0.620f, 0.077f,
0.347f, 0.857f, 0.137f,
0.055f, 0.953f, 0.042f,
0.714f, 0.505f, 0.345f,
0.783f, 0.290f, 0.734f,
0.722f, 0.645f, 0.174f,
0.302f, 0.455f, 0.848f,
0.225f, 0.587f, 0.040f,
0.517f, 0.713f, 0.338f,
0.053f, 0.959f, 0.120f,
0.393f, 0.621f, 0.362f,
0.673f, 0.211f, 0.457f,
0.820f, 0.883f, 0.371f,
0.982f, 0.099f, 0.879f
};
GLFWwindow* GLFWInit()
{
if (!glfwInit())
{
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to initialize GLFW\n");
}
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_SAMPLES, 4); // 4x antialiasing
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 3); // We want OpenGL 3.3
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 3);
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPAT, GL_TRUE); // To make MacOS happy; should not be needed
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE); // We don't want the old OpenGL
GLFWwindow* window; // (In the accompanying source code, this variable is global for simplicity)
window = glfwCreateWindow(1024, 768, "Tutorial 01", NULL, NULL);
glewExperimental = GL_TRUE;
// Initialize GLEW to setup the OpenGL Function pointers
glewInit();
if (window == NULL) {
printf("Failed to create window context.\n");
}
glfwMakeContextCurrent(window); // Initialize GLEW
return window;
}
int main()
{
GLFWwindow* window = GLFWInit();
//vertex shader ID array setup:
GLuint VertexArrayID;
glGenVertexArrays(1, &VertexArrayID);
glBindVertexArray(VertexArrayID);
// some other code
while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
// wipe the drawing surface clear
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);
glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
// update other events like input handling
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 12 * 3); // 12*3 indices starting at 0 -> 12 triangles -> 6 squares
glfwPollEvents();
// put the stuff we've been drawing onto the display
glfwSwapBuffers(window);
}
glfwTerminate();
return 0;
}
I've looked at other similar questions, and I added the following to my code to no avail.
glewExperimental = GL_TRUE;
glewInit();
Here are the specifications of my machine (if it helps):
It was a simple mistake all along - in my GLFWInit function, the following lines were called before the window was actually created.
glewExperimental = GL_TRUE;
glewInit();
Putting those lines before the return window but after glfwMakeContextCurrent(window) makes it work perfectly now. Thank you for your help.