How to build GLEW to a custom path?

Question

I am trying to build GLEW from git clone https://github.com/nigels-com/glew.git

According to the website, I can modify the install path using the environment variable GLEW_DEST so what I did was

export GLEW_DEST=/usr/local/glew
make extensions
make

However the compilation shows the following error

ld: dylib lib/libGLEW.dylib missing LC_ID_DYLIB load command file 'lib/libGLEW.dylib' for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [bin/glewinfo] Error 1

can someone help figuring out what is the problem?

Answer 1

I haven't had any luck using the provided Makefile to build glew. Hoewever, there is a CMakefileLists that was useful. In order to build glew using cmake, you can check this issue in glew's github.

Finally, to install it in the desired path, don't forget to add -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<somepath> to the cmake command.