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General => General discussions => Topic started by: Guni on February 20, 2012, 07:06:06 pm

Title: Need GLEW for SFML?
Post by: Guni on February 20, 2012, 07:06:06 pm

I believe SFML can be used to create OpenGL contexts, but does it load the OpenGL functions, or will I need to use a separate OpenGL loading library?

Basically, does SFML do this?
http://www.opengl.org/wiki/OpenGL_Loading_Library

Edit:
I ask this because after I include SFML's OpenGL header like this:

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#include <SFML/OpenGL.hpp>

I still get compiler errors like this:

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1>Main.cpp(16): error C3861: 'glCreateShader': identifier not found
1>Main.cpp(18): error C3861: 'glShaderSource': identifier not found

Edit 2:
I tried to boil down my question to the essential issue, but if I should provide more information, I will gladly do so.

Edit 3: I am using SFML 2.0, linking everything statically.

Title: Need GLEW for SFML?
Post by: Laurent on February 20, 2012, 08:04:36 pm

You must use an extension loader (like GLEW), SFML doesn't do that.

Title: Need GLEW for SFML?
Post by: Guni on February 20, 2012, 10:19:46 pm

Thanks