Glew in VS 2010: unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

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I am learning OpenGL by following the Redbook. When I come to around page 90, I need use glGenBuffers(); Then I need to install "glew".

By following the steps in here.

I download glew.zip from glew.sourceforge.net/ and unpack the files.

I put

glew.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include
glew32.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib, and
glew32.dll in C:\Windows\System32

After that, I build my project in VS 2010 and in Linker->input, I add dependencies glew32.lib.

But when I build it, I have an error:

unresolved external symbol __imp__glewInit

Yolondayon answered 17/1, 2011 at 8:5 Comment(0)

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I need to compile the source code of glew.

How to compile it, see: OpenGL: How to compile glew32.dll from source file.

Then you will get glew32d.dll and glew32d.lib.

Put glew32d.dll in c:\windows\sysWOW64 (I also put it in system and system32).
Put glew32d.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib
Put glew.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include

Then it will work.

Yolondayon answered 17/1, 2011 at 19:14 Comment(3)

I spend two days to figure this out with the help from Hans Passant and Mark. – Yolondayon 17/1, 2011 at 19:15

I had the same problem. I started again from the scratch with this manual and it worked: 3dgraphicsfoundations.com/visstudio.html – Waterlogged 19/6, 2014 at 18:17

@abimelex , thanks for posting the link, i had forgotten the step to define additional dependencies in VS, was driving me nuts – Palaeontology 21/6, 2014 at 4:1

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Since it's not mentioned already, my problem was that I was linking against the static version of glew (glew32s.lib), but I hadn't defined the GLEW_STATIC preprocessor symbol (so the header I was compiling against effectively didn't match the library I was linking against).

Chrysolite answered 20/1, 2013 at 6:43 Comment(0)

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I need to compile the source code of glew.

How to compile it, see: OpenGL: How to compile glew32.dll from source file.

Then you will get glew32d.dll and glew32d.lib.

Put glew32d.dll in c:\windows\sysWOW64 (I also put it in system and system32).
Put glew32d.lib in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib
Put glew.h in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include

Then it will work.

Yolondayon answered 17/1, 2011 at 19:14 Comment(3)

I spend two days to figure this out with the help from Hans Passant and Mark. – Yolondayon 17/1, 2011 at 19:15

I had the same problem. I started again from the scratch with this manual and it worked: 3dgraphicsfoundations.com/visstudio.html – Waterlogged 19/6, 2014 at 18:17

@abimelex , thanks for posting the link, i had forgotten the step to define additional dependencies in VS, was driving me nuts – Palaeontology 21/6, 2014 at 4:1

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Another possible solution and less work than compiling the dll from source, is to just use the 32 bit binaries. Windows 7 64bit just doesn't want to co-operate with the 64 bit binaries that they currently have available.

Here's a pretty general setup guide if anyone needs. http://openglbook.com/setting-up-opengl-glew-and-freeglut-in-visual-c/

Kabuki answered 28/3, 2012 at 5:34 Comment(1)

Broken link (404) – Pithos 10/12, 2020 at 0:55

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I struggled with this too for a few hours. Then I realized my program is win32 instead of x64. I was including the glew.lib under the x64 folder when I should be using the glew.lib under the win32 folder.

Meshed answered 19/4, 2015 at 9:34 Comment(0)

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Also make sure you add the proper include for it. I did all the crazy library stuff and somehow forgot to actually include the header file.

In my case it was:

#include <GL/glew.h>

Sought answered 3/10, 2011 at 5:26 Comment(0)

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