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I am completely new to opengl and c++ libraries in general. I don't know how to link the libraries to MSVS2015, so I decide to look up a ... Home Public Questions Tags Users Companies Collectives ExploreCollectives Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Startcollaboratingandsharingorganizationalknowledge. CreateafreeTeam WhyTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Collectives™onStackOverflow Findcentralized,trustedcontentandcollaboratearoundthetechnologiesyouusemost. Learnmore Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore GLFWandGLEW-Missing.libs AskQuestion Asked 5years,8monthsago Modified 5years,8monthsago Viewed 2ktimes 2 0 I'venotbeenhavingthebestdaytoday.Iamcompletelynewtoopenglandc++librariesingeneral.Idon'tknowhowtolinkthelibrariestoMSVS2015,soIdecidetolookupatutorialonhowtolinktheopengllibrariesGLFWandGLEW. I'vereadover6differenttutorialsoverthelast8hours,andtheyalltellmetolinksomethingtothe"lib"folder.ThisfolderisemptyintheGLEW2.0.0download,andiscompletelymissingintheGLFW3.2.1download. Confused,Ireadonlinethattherearesupposedtobesome.libfilesinthere.SoIthensearchedbothdownloadsfor"*.lib",thinkingtheycouldhavebeenmovedinanupdateandfoundnothingwitha".lib"extension.Ididthesamewith".dll"andnothingwasfound. I'mdownloadingtheselibrariesfrom: http://www.glfw.org/ http://glew.sourceforge.net/ AmIdownloadingitfromthewrongsourceorwerethetutorialsjusttooold(ThetutorialsIfoundalwaysstatedthatthelatestversionswereGLEW<1.9andGLFW~2)?Ifyouneedanymoreinformation(setup,pictures...)justask. c++openglglfwglew Share Follow editedAug24,2016at9:59 genpfault 49.3k1010goldbadges7878silverbadges128128bronzebadges askedAug23,2016at23:15 FrznFlmsFrznFlms 45866silverbadges1717bronzebadges 3 4 Didyoudownloadthecorrectfiles?glfw.org/download.htmlYouneedtheWindowspre-compiledbinariesdownloadtogettheprecompiledlibfiles.ForGlewthesame,theBinaries Windows32-bitand64-bitpackageiswhatyouneed. – tkausl Aug23,2016at23:18 1 Howabouttryingthis:opengl.org/sdk/docs/tutorials/ClockworkCoders/downloads/…ThisincludesreferencestoGLEWandFREEGLUTincaseyouareonlytryingtoexplorethem. – Samboy786 Aug24,2016at0:46 1 Wow,I'mstupid.I'msorryaboutthat.Thankyou. – FrznFlms Aug24,2016at0:46 Addacomment  |  1Answer 1 Sortedby: Resettodefault Highestscore(default) Datemodified(newestfirst) Datecreated(oldestfirst) 4 Ineededtodownloadthebinariesformysysteminsteadofthesource,orbuilditwithCMakeorsomeotherbuildingprogram.Ohwell,guessIlearned:/ Share Follow answeredSep11,2016at19:03 FrznFlmsFrznFlms 45866silverbadges1717bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoStackOverflow!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. 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