Help with installing the GFLW library :S

I’m just miserable with this OPENGL libraries.
Every library that i try to install, I don’t succeed.
I chose to start using OPENGL because I found it interesting and now as the time pass I regret this decision because I don’t even manage to install even one of it’s libraries -_-.

I need help from someone that can help me catch up with this things so I can start programming ASAP.

I read the guide to install the library and I didn’t understand what I need to compile!!!

I want someone to write simple and understandable guide for me how to install this library…I FEEL LOST!!!

I would be glad if someone will do that.Thanx.

Well, for starters you should tell us what platform are you working on and what programming language do you use. And GLFW has a very simple and intuitive project structure with all makefiles you need.

I am writing under Windows using C programming language.
I did not understand how to install all these libraries :\

What IDE are you working on? Visual studio ?

I have really nothing to do to install this library, just copy and paste. All is here. Just download the glfw-2.6.bin.WIN32.zip windows binaries package in the download section and paste the lib and header files in the good directories in your development environment.

DEV C++

I am pretty sure there is a devpack for GLFW in dev-c++, you should be able to easily get through the packages manager integrated with the IDE.

PS: there it is :
http://devpaks.org/details.php?devpak=72

Thanks a lot…I will check this out.

OK I installed this GLFW package for DEV C++.
Now I have created a source file with this code:

#include <stdlib.h> // For malloc() etc.
#include <stdio.h> // For printf(), fopen() etc.
#include <math.h> // For sin(), cos() etc.
#include <GL/glfw.h> // For GLFW, OpenGL and GLU

//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// Draw() - Main OpenGL drawing function that is called each frame
//----------------------------------------------------------------------

void Draw( void )
{
int width, height; // Window dimensions
double t; // Time (in seconds)

// Get current time
t = glfwGetTime();

// Get window size
glfwGetWindowSize( &width, &height );

// Make sure that height is non-zero to avoid division by zero
height = height &lt; 1 ? 1 : height;

// Set viewport
glViewport( 0, 0, width, height );

// Clear color and depht buffers
glClearColor( 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f );
glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT );

// Set up projection matrix
glMatrixMode( GL_PROJECTION );    // Select projection matrix
glLoadIdentity();                 // Start with an identity matrix
gluPerspective(                   // Set perspective view
    65.0,                         // Field of view = 65 degrees
    (double)width/(double)height, // Window aspect (assumes square pixels)
    1.0,                          // Near Z clipping plane
    100.0                         // Far Z clippling plane
);

// Set up modelview matrix
glMatrixMode( GL_MODELVIEW );     // Select modelview matrix
glLoadIdentity();                 // Start with an identity matrix
gluLookAt(                        // Set camera position and orientation
    0.0, 0.0, 10.0,               // Camera position (x,y,z)
    0.0, 0.0, 0.0,                // View point (x,y,z)
    0.0, 1.0, 0.0                 // Up-vector (x,y,z)
);

// Here is where actual OpenGL rendering calls would begin...

}

//----------------------------------------------------------------------
// main() - Program entry point
//----------------------------------------------------------------------

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
int ok; // Flag telling if the window was opened
int running; // Flag telling if the program is running

// Initialize GLFW
glfwInit();

// Open window
ok = glfwOpenWindow(
    640, 480,          // Width and height of window
    8, 8, 8,           // Number of red, green, and blue bits for color buffer
    8,                 // Number of bits for alpha buffer
    24,                // Number of bits for depth buffer (Z-buffer)
    0,                 // Number of bits for stencil buffer
    GLFW_WINDOW        // We want a desktop window (could be GLFW_FULLSCREEN)
);

// If we could not open a window, exit now
if( !ok )
{
    glfwTerminate();
    return 0;
}

// Set window title
glfwSetWindowTitle( "My OpenGL program" );

// Enable sticky keys
glfwEnable( GLFW_STICKY_KEYS );

// Main rendering loop
do
{
    // Call our rendering function
    Draw();

    // Swap front and back buffers (we use a double buffered display)
    glfwSwapBuffers();

    // Check if the escape key was pressed, or if the window was closed
    running = !glfwGetKey( GLFW_KEY_ESC ) &&
              glfwGetWindowParam( GLFW_OPENED );
}
while( running );

// Terminate GLFW
glfwTerminate();

// Exit program
return 0;

}

and i get linker error for undefined reference to GLFW functions.
What is the problem here?

You did not forget to add the libs to the linker options, right ?

-lglfw -lopengl32 -lglu32

As MinGW is used by dev-c++ for actual compile and link stages, see its section here :
http://glfw.sourceforge.net/tutorials/lesson00/lesson00.html