fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glew.h': No such file or directory

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I am attempting to statically link GLEW to Visual Studio 2017. I followed a video tutorial exactly, but I still got an error:

fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'GL/glew.h': No such file or directory

I have no idea what could be causing it. Here are the steps I took to link GLEW:

  1. Put the folder named GLEW into a folder called dependencies in the solution directory
  2. Went to C/C++, General and under "Additional Include Directories," I added $(SolutionDir)Dependencies\GLEW\include, which, when I go to edit, evaluates to the correct path
  3. Went to Linker, General and under "Additional Library Directories," I added $(SolutionDir)Dependencies\GLEW\lib\Release\Win32, which also evaluates to the correct path
  4. Went to Linker, Input and under "Additional Dependencies," I added glew32s.lib
  5. Finally, I went to C/C++, Preprocessor and under "Preprocessor Definitions," I added GLEW_STATIC

I also did this same process with GLFW, and it worked perfectly, so I have no idea what the problem could be. I have checked and doublechecked the paths, so I am fairly certain that they are correct. Thank you in advance!

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c++openglglfwglew
I have no idea what could be causing it You don't have the folder that contains the GL folder in any of the folders your compile searches in its include path. – drescherjm
$(SolutionDir)Dependencies\GLEW\include Did you verify that this folder exists? Is there a GL folder inside that? – drescherjm
It does exist and it does contain a GL folder – Delectable Goat
Is there a glew.h file in that folder. The compiler is saying that there is not. Possibly did you edit the wrong configuration? Settings for each configuration (Debug, Release ...) are independent – drescherjm
yes, there is a glew.h file in that folder. And also yes, I have edited it for all configurations. – Delectable Goat

1 Answers

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Sounds like you're doing

#include <GL/glew.h>

When you should be doing

#include <glew.h>

Is glew.h directly in the win32 folder? Or is there a further "GL" folder?