OpenGL - glload undefined reference to `wglGetProcAddress@4'

Question

I downloaded the Unofficial OpenGL SDK and created the Makefile with premake4 and compiled it with mingw 4.8.4.

I am also using QtCreator

this is my .pro file

TEMPLATE = app

QT += opengl

SOURCES += main.cpp

QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -std=gnu++11

INCLUDEPATH += C:/glsdk/freeglut/include
LIBS += -LC:/glsdk/freeglut/lib -lfreeglut

INCLUDEPATH += C:/glsdk/glload/include
LIBS += -LC:/glsdk/glload/lib -lglloadD

I am also follwing the arcsynthesis openGL tutorials and tried to build the "hello triangle example":

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <glload/gl_3_3.h>
#include <glload/gll.hpp>
#include <GL/freeglut.h>

using namespace std;


GLuint CreateShader(GLenum eShaderType, const std::string &strShaderFile)
{
    GLuint shader = glCreateShader(eShaderType);
    const char *strFileData = strShaderFile.c_str();
    glShaderSource(shader, 1, &strFileData, NULL);

    glCompileShader(shader);

    GLint status;
    glGetShaderiv(shader, GL_COMPILE_STATUS, &status);
    if (status == GL_FALSE)
    {
        GLint infoLogLength;
        glGetShaderiv(shader, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &infoLogLength);

        GLchar *strInfoLog = new GLchar[infoLogLength + 1];
        glGetShaderInfoLog(shader, infoLogLength, NULL, strInfoLog);

        const char *strShaderType = NULL;
        switch(eShaderType)
        {
        case GL_VERTEX_SHADER: strShaderType = "vertex"; break;
        case GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER: strShaderType = "geometry"; break;
        case GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER: strShaderType = "fragment"; break;
        }

        fprintf(stderr, "Compile failure in %s shader:\n%s\n", strShaderType, strInfoLog);
        delete[] strInfoLog;
    }

    return shader;
}

GLuint CreateProgram(const std::vector<GLuint> &shaderList)
{
    GLuint program = glCreateProgram();

    for(size_t iLoop = 0; iLoop < shaderList.size(); iLoop++)
        glAttachShader(program, shaderList[iLoop]);

    glLinkProgram(program);

    GLint status;
    glGetProgramiv (program, GL_LINK_STATUS, &status);
    if (status == GL_FALSE)
    {
        GLint infoLogLength;
        glGetProgramiv(program, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &infoLogLength);

        GLchar *strInfoLog = new GLchar[infoLogLength + 1];
        glGetProgramInfoLog(program, infoLogLength, NULL, strInfoLog);
        fprintf(stderr, "Linker failure: %s\n", strInfoLog);
        delete[] strInfoLog;
    }

    for(size_t iLoop = 0; iLoop < shaderList.size(); iLoop++)
        glDetachShader(program, shaderList[iLoop]);

    return program;
}

GLuint theProgram;

const std::string strVertexShader(
    "#version 330\n"
    "layout(location = 0) in vec4 position;\n"
    "void main()\n"
    "{\n"
    "   gl_Position = position;\n"
    "}\n"
);

const std::string strFragmentShader(
    "#version 330\n"
    "out vec4 outputColor;\n"
    "void main()\n"
    "{\n"
    "   outputColor = vec4(1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);\n"
    "}\n"
);

void InitializeProgram()
{
    std::vector<GLuint> shaderList;

    shaderList.push_back(CreateShader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER, strVertexShader));
    shaderList.push_back(CreateShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER, strFragmentShader));

    theProgram = CreateProgram(shaderList);

    std::for_each(shaderList.begin(), shaderList.end(), glDeleteShader);
}

const float vertexPositions[] = {
    0.75f, 0.75f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
    0.75f, -0.75f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
    -0.75f, -0.75f, 0.0f, 1.0f,
};

GLuint positionBufferObject;
GLuint vao;


void InitializeVertexBuffer()
{
    glGenBuffers(1, &positionBufferObject);

    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, positionBufferObject);
    glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(vertexPositions), vertexPositions, GL_STATIC_DRAW);
    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
}

//Called after the window and OpenGL are initialized. Called exactly once, before the main loop.
void init()
{
    InitializeProgram();
    InitializeVertexBuffer();

    glGenVertexArrays(1, &vao);
    glBindVertexArray(vao);
}


void display()
{
    glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
    glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

    glUseProgram(theProgram);

    glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, positionBufferObject);
    glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);
    glVertexAttribPointer(0, 4, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, 0);

    glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLES, 0, 3);

    glDisableVertexAttribArray(0);
    glUseProgram(0);

    glutSwapBuffers();
}
void reshape(GLsizei w,GLsizei h){
    GLint zero = 0;
    cout << "D ";
    glViewport(zero,zero,w,h);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    glutInit(&argc, argv);

    int width = 500;
    int height = 500;
    unsigned int displayMode = GLUT_DOUBLE | GLUT_ALPHA | GLUT_DEPTH | GLUT_STENCIL;


    glutInitDisplayMode (displayMode);
    glutInitContextVersion (3, 3);
    glutInitContextProfile(GLUT_CORE_PROFILE);
#ifdef DEBUG
    glutInitContextFlags(GLUT_DEBUG);
#endif
    glutInitWindowSize (width, height);
    glutInitWindowPosition (300, 200);
    int window = glutCreateWindow (argv[0]);

    glload::LoadFunctions();

    glutSetOption(GLUT_ACTION_ON_WINDOW_CLOSE, GLUT_ACTION_CONTINUE_EXECUTION);

    if(!glload::IsVersionGEQ(3, 3))
    {
        printf("Your OpenGL version is %i, %i. You must have at least OpenGL 3.3 to run this tutorial.\n",
            glload::GetMajorVersion(), glload::GetMinorVersion());
        glutDestroyWindow(window);
        return 0;
    }

    if(glext_ARB_debug_output)
    {
        glEnable(GL_DEBUG_OUTPUT_SYNCHRONOUS_ARB);
        //glDebugMessageCallbackARB(DebugFunc, (void*)15);
    }

    init();

    glutDisplayFunc(display);
    glutReshapeFunc(reshape);
    //glutKeyboardFunc(keyboard);
    glutMainLoop();
    return 0;
}

But I always get the following error.

c:\glsdk\glload\source\wgll_ext.c:140: error: undefined reference to `wglGetProcAddress@4'

I don't even know why it looks in the glload\source folder.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

That is a Windows specific OpenGL function, are you developing a Windows application?

It seems those tutorials you are following are defined to work with Windows implementation of OpenGL, and they won't work with that Unofficial OpenGL SDK due to missing functions like wglGetProcAddress.