   can someone help me get opengl working
  ok its meen a month now since I heard about opengl and i have wanted to try and programe with it but i have not found a single person that will tell me how to set it up eaven the website has no usefull information at all on the subjekt of using opengl. I have followd the nehe guide... it disdent work i have aked almost every single form about it and not one person will give me a streight answer. Im using dev-c++ and have installd a opengl autoinstaller that should work and tryd all the libery files i should need can aneone help me please.   
  be more specific about the problems you are having   ;  Ok, first I would advice you to use the Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition which is freely available and is a superior IDE.You will also need to download the Platform SDK available from the Microsoft site and follow these instructions on how to set it up.Second I would advice you to stay away from the nehe tutorials as they teach you realy bad programming practices. Instead I recommend you get a copy of the readbook and learn from there. If you can't afford the newest version (which I would like to own myself) you can still find an older version (v1.1!) in HTML and even PDF format via googling. For a beginner even this older version can be helpful as at the beginning you probably won't use extensions such as Vertex Buffer Objects and the Shading Language. Note that the redbook (at least v1.1) uses the GLUT framework so you would have to get that too if you want to follow the examples exactly.Later if you ever want to use features not found in OpenGL 1.1 I would recommend you to get GLEW which lets you access the extensions and features beyond OpenGL 1.1 very easily.In the end I would recommend you to use the SDL + OpenGL combination. It works realy well.   ;  flosy1234,Once you install Dev-C++, test the OpenGL project template, which comes with Dev-C++.1. Select File > New > Project...2. Select "Multimedia" tab from "New Project" popup window3. Click "OpenGL" icon, then type your own project name in project option section.After you create new project, try to compile the sample code that comes with the template. If you success, then you are now ready to go.If you need a glut package for Dev-C++, grab it from:www.nigels.com/glt/devpak/I use the second one, glut.3.7.6+.DevPak. After installing glut package, you will see glut project template in the same page where OpenGL template are located.These templates are very useful for me to start new OpenGL program. It automatically links the required libs for me, and I only replace the codes myself.You can find some example programs using Dev-C++ and glut:www.songho.ca/opengl/;  nope both wont compile   ;  Why not? Just coming back and saying "it won't compile" is not helpful.   ;Quote:Original post by flosy1234nope both wont compileThen, Dev-C++ installation is broken. Read installation instruction again, and reinstall it. One thing to know that, Dev-C++ does not like spaces in the folder name.;  What's so wrong with NEHE's tutorials? I've learned from there and I'm a happy person ;P   