Installing FreeGLUT for Visual Studio 6

• This is only for working at home; FreeGLUT is already installed on Faculty of Computer Science computers.
  
  
• You will need to get the FreeGLUT header files (freeglut.h, freeglut_ext.h and freeglut_std.h), the library file (freeglut.lib) and the DLL file (freeglut.dll). You can get all these files here.
  
  
• Files must be placed in the correct directories. For example, if your Visual C++ program is located in the directory ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft VisualStudio\VC98’, then you would put each of the files in the following locations:
  
  
  • Put freeglut.h in: ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft VisualStudio\VC98\Include\gl\’
  • Put freeglut_ext.h in: ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft VisualStudio\VC98\Include\gl\’
  • Put freeglut_std.h in: ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft VisualStudio\VC98\Include\gl\’
  • Put freeglut.lib in: ‘C:\Program Files\Microsoft VisualStudio\VC98\lib\’
  • Put freeglut.dll in: ‘C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\’
  
  
• But, you’ll need to determine the appropriate directory for your particular system.
  
  

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