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Help => Graphics => Topic started by: GameGeazer on February 24, 2013, 08:40:19 pm

Title: error while loading sharelibraries libglew.so.1.7
Post by: GameGeazer on February 24, 2013, 08:40:19 pm

Hey, I had sfml working properly then out of the blue I started getting an error message in the SFML window. "error while loading shared libraries libGlew.so.1.7." the project builds, but the render window doesn't open. I've tried finding a libglew.so.1.7 file to manually link it but to  no avail.

I'm running Ubuntu and using sfml 2.0, thanks for your time.

Title: Re: error while loading sharelibraries libglew.so.1.7
Post by: mateandmetal on February 25, 2013, 10:28:16 pm

Try reinstalling libglew from the official repository
Or, compile from sources  ;)

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On Unix, typing make install will attempt to install GLEW into /usr/include/GL and /usr/lib. You can customize the installation target via the GLEW_DEST environment variable if you do not have write access to these directories.

Title: Re: error while loading sharelibraries libglew.so.1.7
Post by: eXpl0it3r on February 25, 2013, 10:51:03 pm

Well my guess is, that your OS updated to a newer GLEW version, but you're SFML still wants to use the 1.7 version (I think 1.9 is current), so it's better to recompile SFML rather than trying to get the outdated GLEW version. ;)