Compiling OpenGL and GLUT OSX

Question

I am having difficulty compiling a C program using the OpenGL and GLUT frameworks on Mac OSX. I am just getting started and I attempted to run code from this tutorial, on how to install OpenGL. http://www.prinmath.com/csci5229/misc/install.html.

Here is the code:

#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <GLUT/glut.h>
#else
#include <GL/glut.h>
#endif

int main(){
    return 0;
}

I am trying to compile it with:

gcc -o foo foo.c -framework GLUT -framework OpenGL

I am receiving this error:

foo.c:2:23: error: GLUT/glut.h: No such file or directory

After doing some further research here, http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~sugih/courses/eecs487/glut-howto/, I looked in /System/Library/Frameworks/ and both OpenGL.framework, and GLUT.framework where present.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Answer 1

Without installing glutg3-dev you can use OS X GLUT and OpenGL frameworks as follows

gcc -o foo foo.c -L/System/Library/Frameworks -framework GLUT -framework OpenGL

notice that it is important to tell the compiler the path to the frameworks

Answer 2

You need to install OpenGL Utility Toolkit glutg3-dev lib.If it is already there then compile with -lglut -lGLU -lGL option.