w0lramd / win32openglsetup

OpenGL setup without using GLEW / GLFW / GLU or any other helper libraries.

Handmade OpenGL

Setting up OpenGL on Win32 from scratch. No GLEW / GLFW / GLU or any other helper libraries.

Credit to Handmade Hero

Build Steps

I'm working on Windows 10 I hope the steps apply to other versions of Windows.

• Download and Install Visual Studio Community. Make sure to select Comon Tools For Visual C++ from the feature list so the C compiler gets installed.

• Make sure to run vcvarsall.bat x64 so the compiler cl and the debugger devenv are available on the Windows terminal. On my machine vcvarsall.bat lives in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat. You will have to run the script each time you start a console. To automate the process you can create a startup.bat script that gets automatically run each time a console starts.

• Run the build.bat script included in the repo to build your program

• If compilation goes right you will get the executable in the build directory. You can also type run as a shortcut.

• You can run the program in the debugger by running devenv build/main.exe