How to Get SDL+Opengl Going on Windows
Sep 15, 2015, 12:00:00 AM

Originally posted 2015-09-15/Modified 2016-12-21

I know these directions are a bit sketchy, for now I am just writing down what I remember from the process. I will test these instructions on a fresh box soon.

  1. Install SDL. Download SDL for mingw, ignore the install directions. Instead copy things into your c:/mingw directory.
  2. Install glew. download sources and compile with msys. then copy into appropriate directories (dlls go in C:\Windows\SysWOW64").

  3. Build the attached "test\opengl.c" with the following command:

    gcc -o test.exe test_opengl.c -lopengl32 -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lglew32
  4. profit.