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Asked: 2026-06-01T08:05:50+00:00

I am new to OpenGL. I have to develop a simple 3D application. I

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I am new to OpenGL. I have to develop a simple 3D application. I read from Google that I have to install GLUT and OpenGL. Is that right? Can you tell what exactly should I install?
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    Google that I have to install GLUT and

    You don’t need GLUT necessarily. A lot of tutorials use it, though.

    OpenGL. Is that right?

    Well, OpenGL is mostly an API to the drivers. So what you actually need are the drivers for your graphics processor directly from the vendor. The drivers Windows7 installs automatically lack modern OpenGL support.

    So just head over to http://intel.com or http://amd.com or http://nvidia.com, depending on your GPU, and download the drivers for from their site directly and install them.

    What I highly recommend is getting GLEW: http://glew.sf.net – it makes things to much easier in the long run. Especially if you want to do anything beyond OpenGL-1.1 you’ll have to use the so called extension system which is a bit tedious to use directly. GLEW hides this all behind a single function call to glewInit(), once you’ve got a OpenGL context.

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