Weird glew behaviour.

[con]

Hi all, I have managed to setup a SFML application with opengl and glew and all working fine. One thing though is very odd.

This makes the application work fine.
GLenum glewStatus = glewInit();

But this however makes the application crash.
glewInit();

Currently I am using QT Creator with mingw on windows, I think I remember by using codeblocks (couple of weeks ago) that there was not such problem.

Any ideas about what it is?

[Jesper Juhl]

Whether you store the return value or not really shouldn't make a difference. It certainly shouldn't cause a crash.
Are you sure you are linking with the correct debug/release versions of libraries?
Does it make a difference if you build with/without optimizations?
Have you tried running the programme in a debugger? What does it say about where/why it crashes?

[SLC]

Happened to me to. And what I did was to download the latest version from the official site and compile it manually using the same compiler I use for SFML. I build it as a static library and made sure to define GLEW_STATIC in both the Glew project and the projects where I link to Glew. I replaced the the default libglew.a from the extlibs directory of SFML and compiled SFML again. When I linked the libraries to my project I made sure I first link to SFML's libraries and then the Glew library. Then I compiled my project again and voila, it worked NOTE: I was using Code::Blocks and MinGW GCC 4.8.1 and SFML was built as static. Building it as static decreased my total executable size If you build SFML as static, make sure to add the following libraries on your project (-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32) So that you won't get "Undefined reference.." But before you do all that make sure you have GLEW_STATIC in your project if the Glew library that you use is a static library and check to see if that helps or SFML_STATIC if you have static SFML libraries.

[con]

Thanks for the suggestions I will try them again to see how it goes.