Installing GLUT on your PC (Courtesy of John Isidoro)

As you may have found out, in order to run the programming assignments, you need to install GLUT. The simplest way I have found to install it is to just to download the zip file glutdlls.zip and to place the following files in the following directories:

glut.h         C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\include\GL
glut.lib       C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib
glut32.lib     C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\lib
glut.dll       C:\Windows\system
glut32.dll     C:\Windows\system32

If you are not using the default install directories for Windows, or Visual Studio, just find where they have been installed, and place the following glut files in the appropriate subdirectories.

Creating an OpenGl/GLUT application

Here, I will assume that you are somewhat familiar with Microsoft's Developer Studio or Visual C++ version 5.0 or 6.0.

• From the menu file choose File->New.
• Click on Win32 Console Application, and give a name for your project.
• Choose an empty project.
• From the menu file choose Project->Add to Project->Files... to add files to your project.
• From the menu file choose Project->Settings... and click on the Link tab.
• In the Object/Library Modules: line add the following libraries : opengl32.lib, glu32.lib, and glut32.lib. The Settings dialog should look like that :