How to fix "Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR GLEW_LIBRARY)"

Question

It appears you are building natively for Linux with GCC

Cocos2dx on Linux : "cmake -G 'CodeBlocks - Unix Makefiles'
-- OpenGL include dirs: /usr/include
CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake-3.4/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:148 (message):
  Could NOT find GLEW (missing: GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR GLEW_LIBRARY)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/local/share/cmake-3.4/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:388 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /usr/local/share/cmake-3.4/Modules/FindGLEW.cmake:44 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  cocos2d/cmake/Modules/CocosBuildHelpers.cmake:44 (find_package)
  cocos2d/CMakeLists.txt:190 (cocos_find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/daw/Dev/cocos2d-x-3.9/allProject/testC/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".

Panarabism

make sure you have installed all the dependencies listed in cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Linux_Installation_and_Setup – Charlie

Answer 1

It's quite an old question but I was looking for solution of the same issue and came here, so maybe my answer will help someone in future.

In Ubuntu 17.10 it was enough to install libglew-dev package to solve this

sudo apt install libglew-dev

Sedgewick

Answer 2

Download The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library and add include and lib path in cmake project file.

For example:

set(GLEW_INCLUDE_DIR, "/glew-2.0.0/include/")
set(GLEW_LIBRARY, "/glew-2.0.0/lib")

Hope this helps.

Gluey

I had to remove the commas after the variable names. – Saintpierre

im still getting the error and i did all the steps listed above – Piggin

Answer 3

list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "path/to/glew")

add this in the relevant CMakeLists.txt

for details see this link https://itecnote.com/tecnote/cmake-cant-find-glew/

Chancemedley

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