Compiling Opengl Program Gl/Glew. H Missing
I Installed Opengl onto My Computer Running Linux Mint Following the Instructions on This Tutorial. I Am Trying to Compile a Program That Uses Opengl, but I'm...
I installed OpenGL onto my computer running Linux Mint following the instructions on this tutorial. I am trying to compile a program that uses OpenGL, but I'm getting a compile error: fatal error: GL/glew.h: No such file or directory. I check the /usr/include/GL folder, and glew.h is indeed missing. I don't know why it's missing, because I did the command sudo apt-get install libglew1.5 and it gives the output:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libglew1.5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 465 not upgraded.
Why is the glew.h file missing?
2 Answers
libglew is just the library, but not the development files (headers). You need to install those separately. The package name on Debian based systems is libglew-dev
and for fedora(and possibly its derivatives) it is glew-devel
Run the following command:
sudo apt-get install libglew-dev
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