Alternatives to GLEW / Is GLEW neccessary?

[Areyan]

Hi,

I'm only trying to use GLEW because a lot of tutorial-makers are so fond of it, however since it constantly annoys me with linking-errors whenever I try to compile anything where GLEW is used, no matter what I do to fix it, I'm starting to get a bit sick of it.

Due to that I'm wondering wether GLEW is actually neccessary, or if there's any good alternatives to GLEW?

I wouldn't mind going a bit more low-level if neccessary, as long as I may still be able to achieve most things OpenGL.

Thanks in advance for any useful replies

[Alfonse Reinheart]

We have a whole wiki page of alternatives. I even wrote two of them.

Also, the fact that tutorial-makers are fond of something doesn't mean you should use it. Use what works best for your needs, not what others seem to want to use.

[idaka82]

What kind of linking errors are you getting? Also, consider just including glew.c, glew.h and glxew.h into your project. I am doing so, no need to link with glew library.

[Areyan]

Thanks for the replies
But I actually found that wiki-page sorted it out myself.
Should have remembered to mark it as solved.