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Asked: 2026-06-09T03:17:02+00:00

I need to build GLEW from source so I can use it with Mingw

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I need to build GLEW from source so I can use it with Mingw in Code::Blocks being Mingw doesn’t like to use the one’s they compile in VS. I’m using Cygwin and I download the source for GLEW here and unzip it. I then browse to the folder with Cygwin using cd. Then I run

make Makefile

It then gives me these errors.

config/config.guess: line 6: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 8: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 26: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 27: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 38: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 40: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 52: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 63: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 66: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 69: syntax error near unexpected token `$'in\r''
'onfig/config.guess: line 69: `  case $1 in
config/config.guess: line 6: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 8: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 26: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 27: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 38: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 40: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 52: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 63: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 66: $'\r': command not found
config/config.guess: line 69: syntax error near unexpected token `$'in\r''
'onfig/config.guess: line 69: `  case $1 in
Makefile:40: *** "Platform '' not supported".  Stop.

I’ve read around and I haven’t been able to find much useful on solving this problem yet. If you know a better way I can get GLEW working with Mingw that would also answer my question.

On Windows XP
Using Code::Blocks 10.05
Using Cygwin 1.7.16-1
Using GLEW 1.8.0

UPDATE

Those errors have been fixed using dos2unix on the config.guess file. However, when I run the Makefile now it says there is nothing to be done for it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Looks very much like config.guess has DOS line endings (“\r\n”) but make is expecting Unix line endings (“\n”). I would just run whatever tool on config.guess to convert it to Unix line endings, my cygwin has a tool called dos2unix that will do the trick.

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