setting up GLEW windows?

5
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I have visual studio 2010 and I want to set up glew.h on it. i do this step but still I have linker error: 1.download glew pack

2.copy .h files to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Include

3.copy .lib files to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\Lib

4.copy glew32.dll to C:\Windows\SysWOW64

5.and finally go to myproject properties then go to linker->input add glew32.lib, glu32.lib, and opengl32.lib to Additional Dependencies

but I still have this error:

error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp____glewBlendEquation

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visual-studio-2010openglglew

2 Answers

3
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I've been confronted to the same issue today, so even if I'm one month late for the answer, just add GLEW_STATIC to your preprocessor's definitions.

2
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That's a common problem. Just download the source, recompile it and it will work.