No idea how to start

[Jossos]

I've actually figured out the problems I've been having, and am following this tutorial to learn openGL: http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/

If you would like to help me, just check out the latest post in this thread. I'll keep all my problems together in one thread, rather than a new thread for each.

This was what this thread was initially.

So I've spent the last few hours scouring google for answers and haven't gotten anything. I have a decent knowledge of c++ and Microsoft visual studio set up, and I just can't get any openGL programs to work. The problems are weird and the programs I copy/paste are always missing stuff (even with all the include files working fine). For example I copy-pasted the code from this page: http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-int...Slideshow.html and there's 3 things I'm missing apparently ('render' and 'update_fade_factor' are undeclared identifiers and 'make_resources' can't be found.) and somehow the code used by the originator worked just fine.

I'm pretty newbie, and I just want to play with this thing, but it's impossible to even get a blank window. All tutorials I have found are either outdated or assume you know how to get everything perfectly set up.

I'm eager to learn, but I can't even start with all this crap getting in the way. If I can just make a blank window that would be totally awesome, and I could work my way from there.

PS: freeImage has no freeImage.lib file included with it now, which is annoying since tutorials using it require that this file be included.
PSS: VS refuses to acknowledge the existence of glaux.h, but it recognises all the other files in the same folder. This is really frustrating and makes no sense to me.

Any help/guidance is very much appreciated.

[ZbuffeR]

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/
This one should have everything you need. The author is often around these forum if you need help.

[Jossos]

"The source to this tutorial, found in Tut1 Hello Triangle/tut1.cpp, is fairly simple. The project file that builds the final executable actually uses two source files: the tutorial file and a common framework file found in framework/framework.cpp. The framework file is where the actual initialization of FreeGLUT is done; it is also where main is. This file simply uses functions defined in the main tutorial file."

Where am I meant to get these?

[Alfonse Reinheart]

Where am I meant to get these?

Maybe from the page that explains how to build the tutorials.

The book is meant to be read front-to-back.

[Jossos]

"MSVCRTD.lib(wcrtexew.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _wWinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup"

I'm about to give up. I'm frustrated beyond belief

[Alfonse Reinheart]

If you're so frustrated, just stop already and come back to it when you've calmed down.

If there is a problem, you need to explain the steps you took that led to the problem. Simply posting an error message isn't helpful to anyone.