Question

I cannot get GLEW to link correctly with my program.

I have the path correct in my project (I’ve triple checked), I have tried building from scratch, using the x86 libs (all 4 – the -s, -mxs, etc) AND the x64 libs.

I have tried using the #pragma directive instead of configuring my project in properties.

I am trying to get it as a static lib so no DLLs will be necessary.

I also have GLEW_STATIC defined, as the build instructions advise.

Error message:

OGLInit.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _glewInit@0
referenced in function “bool __stdcall vexal::OGLStartup(void)”
(?OGLStartup@vexal@@YG_NXZ)

I’ve even used dumpbin to check that initGlew is there. It is, and it is external.

I’ve also verified it’s found the lib.

Searching
C:\Users\Jake\Documents\Vexal2\vexal\vc9_x86\lib\Debug\GLEW.lib:

I’ve run out of ideas here. Any help?

Answer 1

The problem was the calling convention. I changed the calling convention settings to __stdcall instead of __cdecl, changed _glfwTerminate_atexit( void ) to __cdecl in the GLFW code I had, and then built.

Fixed!