MacOS M1 -> fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found

Question

I have a project (here) that works both on Linux and intel MacOS, but in my Mac m1 it doesn't. Whenever I try to compile it, I get the following errors (ops.: I'm using vscode m1 native):

pedrohaccorsi@MacBook-Air-de-Pedro dev % make
g++ -o app src/glad.c src/AudioManager.cpp src/Character.cpp src/SceneManager.cpp src/Source.cpp src/Sprite.cpp src/stb_image.cpp -g -Iinclude -F/Library/Frameworks -lglfw -ldl -framework SDL2 -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2.framework/Headers -framework SDL2_mixer -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2_mixer.framework/Headers


In file included from src/AudioManager.cpp:1:
include/AudioManager.h:1:10: fatal error: 'SDL2/SDL.h' file not found
#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
In file included from src/Character.cpp:1:
In file included from include/Character.h:1:
In file included from include/Sprite.h:6:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
In file included from src/SceneManager.cpp:1:
In file included from include/SceneManager.h:3:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
src/Source.cpp:10:17: warning: using directive refers to implicitly-defined namespace 'std'
using namespace std;
                ^
In file included from src/Source.cpp:12:
In file included from include/SceneManager.h:3:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.
In file included from src/Sprite.cpp:1:
In file included from include/Sprite.h:6:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [app] Error 1

Before hand I ran these three commands and they worked successfully, no errors nor warnings at all, so I assumed it was all working fine.

brew install glfw
brew install sdl2
brew install sdl2_mixer

Anyone has any ideas?

Selinski

You want to make sure that your library search path was correct. When you install it through Homebrew on an M1 Mac, by default, they would be located in opt/homebrew – Chukker

Answer 1

My issue was partially solved. There were two problems, GLFWand SDL2.

GLFW

The fix was the same proposed in this thread; in a nutshell it consists in:

$ nano ~/.zshrc
> export CPATH=/opt/homebrew/include
> export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib

This will tell the compiler to look for things in opt/homebrew, which is where homebrew for m1 installs the packages, instead of usr/local.

SDL2

I downloaded the two .dmg files from the websites below

1. https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
2. https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

Then I went to the downloads and copied the .framework directory from both downloads and pasted into /Library/Frameworks.

This solved those errors from before, that the system could not find the includes, but a new error showed up: symbols not found for architecture arm64. I decided to quit trying and just removed the sound out of my game (it was a college assignment, no biggie in taking features out).

Selinski

I had the error " 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found" too. And editing my ~/.zshrc file with export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib fixed it. Thanks! – Embroider

Answer 2

On MacOS Monterey 12.6 I fixed the issue by installing xcode, then installed with homebrew:

1. glew
2. glfw3
3. xquartz

brew install glew glfw3
brew install --cask xquartz

Then I pointed to the X11 folders and sample OpenGL program compiled. The github source code was taken from: https://github.com/zamirmf/OpenGLOnMac

For example:

clang -o testopengl main.cpp \
  -L/opt/X11/lib -L/opt/homebrew/lib \
  -I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/homebrew/include  \
  -lglfw -framework OpenGL

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