Open GL 4.5 Setup

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TL;DR

step by step presuming I’m brain dead guide on how to setup OpenGL 4.5 on windows 10 VS 2017 or compiler, IDE & OpenGL project on Linux mint 19. 

 

Long:

just got the open GL superbible 7th Edition & it doesn’t say how to setup a project. 

I tried following some Khoros group guides & other sites but things are either outdated or vague/incomplete. 

I’m really excited to learn Open GL but I don’t know how to setup the project. One source said Open GL is just built into visual studio but I couldn’t just

#include <GL>

#include “opengl.h”

or whatever. 

I started with an empty c++ project in visual studio 2017 community edition. 

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OpenGL is apart of your video card driver so yes its apart of visual studio or any other IDE. However there is no API it is a specification so its up to you manually load functions through a platform specific API call or use a extension loading library like GLEW. 

 

In reality you should almost never be using the GL header as unless you have a good reason to manually load functions its useless. 

 

Here is some tutorials I found. I can't say what the quality of them is as I have never used them but they probably could get you started.

 

https://learnopengl.com/Introduction

http://ogldev.atspace.co.uk/index.html

http://www.rastertek.com/tutgl40.html