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How to Set Up GLFW Library

Namely, you can set up GLFW in three ways

  • download glfw using package manager (for Mac and Ubuntu)
  • download pre-build library (Mac and Windows)
  • compile the GLFW source code by yourself

Below, we discuss these options in detail

From Package Manager

for Mac, install glfw using package manager brew as

$ brew install glfw

For ubuntu, install glfw using apt-get as

$ sudo apt-get install -y libx11-dev xorg-dev \
                          libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev \
                          libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dev
$ sudo apt install -y libglfw3 libglfw3-dev
$ sudo apt install -y libglew-dev

Unfortunately, for windows, there is not a easyway to install glfw with commands.

Pre-Build Binary Library

You can download the prebuild library from here

https://www.glfw.org/download.html

Extract the compressed file and rename it as GLFW_Lib and put it under the 3rd_party/ folder of the reository.

Make sure you have a header file glfw3.h at

pba-<username>/3rd_party/GLFW_Lib/include/GLFW/glfw3.h

Build from Source Code

Alternatively, you can build glfw from source code and put the library under 3rd_party/GLFW_Lib with

$ mkdir 3rd_party/GLFW_Lib 
$ git submodule update --init 3rd_party/glfw
$ cd 3rd_party/glfw
$ cmake .
$ cmake --build . --config Release
$ cmake --install . --prefix ../GLFW_Lib

Make sure you have a header file glfw3.h at

pba-<username>/3rd_party/GLFW_Lib/include/GLFW/glfw3.h