CS 381 Fall 2010
Mac GLEW Installation

The following instructions for dealing with GLEW under MacOS were written by CS 381 student Kevin Layer, fall 2009. HTML-ified and edited in minor ways by GGC. Additions, comments, etc., are welcome.

Notes

• Note that Mac OS X likes to bundle the headers and libraries into frameworks; simply copying the header and library files will not work.
• For MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) or above, there are GLEW binaries available, which might be simpler than the steps listed below. Users of MacOS 10.4 and lower MUST follow these steps.

To Install GLEW on a Mac

1. Go to http://thirdcog.eu/apps/frameworks#glew, and download either the 1.4.0 or 1.5.0 version (a ZIP file).
2. Extract the zip anywhere on the system (like the desktop for instance).
3. Open a terminal window and su as root (See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1528 to learn how to do this).
4. With root privileges copy the GLEW.framework director from the downloaded directory to the system library.

   # mkdir /System/Library/Frameworks/GLEW.framework
   # cp -R <EXTRACTED_GLEW_DIRECTORY>/Mac/build/Release/GLEW.framework/* /System/Library/Frameworks/GLEW.framework/
   

In the C++ Source File

#include <GLEW/glew.h>

Include this before before including the GLUT header.

To Run in gcc

$ g++ ./<SOURCE_FILE>.cpp -framework OpenGL -framework glut -framework glew -o <EXECUTABLE_FILE>