I am trying to start opengl programming from videotutorialsrock.com. He wants me to install the GLUT and OpenGL SDK. I was able to download GLUT successfully, but the link that it has on this page http://www.videotutorialsrock.com/opengl_tutorial/get_opengl_setup_windows/text.php does not work on my 64-bit installation of Windows 7.
I tried going to the OpenGL page and could not find the download. I am not very familiar with OpenGL yet, so I hesitate to just download some OpenGL library and go from there.
What should I download?
. DLL will already be installed as part of Windows
The .LIB file can be found in the Windows Platform SDK ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en )
If you use MinGW instead of Visual Studio, the .a equivalent (.lib equivalent) must be installed along with the rest of MinGW.
The following blog post may also be useful: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en
You do not need to install OpenGL, it is part of Windows. For GLUT, just get the freeglut source code and compile it as a 64-bit lib library.