Holy, I'm about to lose my mind

[crisp wind]

I'm trying to setup openGL on my mac M1 but its impossible. I just can't. I can't. Idk why tf I can't. I can send you everything you ask for, the code, the tasks.json but I keep getting THE SAME FKING ERROR
fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
1 | #include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

LIKE BRO ITS BEEN 5 HOURS AND ITS STILL AT THIS. I CHANGED ALL MY FILE DIRECTORIES, THE SAMPLE CODE, THE JSON FILE, EVERYTHING

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[hoary cobalt]

I have set up OpenGL on mac M1 before.. what is your approach now? Using CMake or not? Which IDE? What does your directory tree look like?

[crisp wind]

I used CMake. Visual Studio Code. Desktop/Code/CppCode/ then inside CppCode I have my helloworld.cpp and directories. the directories has include and library. with glfw and libglfw.dylib

[hoary cobalt]

is glfw.h in your include folder? @crisp wind

[crisp wind]

no a folder glfw then inside that glfw.h

[hoary cobalt]

your folder is named "glfw"? or "GLFW"

like basically make sure

your #include says "GLFW/glfw3.h"

[crisp wind]

GLFW

[hoary cobalt]

So your directory tree is like:

In your working directory:
helloworld.cpp

folder include -> folder GLFW -> glfw3.h

[crisp wind]

CppCode –>
helloworld.cpp
directories –>
include
library

that after that you know

[hoary cobalt]

oh

you need to change

right now you have: #include <GLFW/glfw3.h>

But it needs to be: #include "directories/include/GLFW/glfw.h" since that is the path relative to your source file helloworld.cpp

[crisp wind]

oh and do i just click run, or do i type some special thing in terminal like ./app?

[hoary cobalt]

add that, compile, then run

[crisp wind]

compile?

[hoary cobalt]

just add that and click run

compile is automatically done

with visual studio code

[crisp wind]

ah ok

[junior palm]

You can add -I./directories/include/ (GCC/Clang) to your compiler (or something similar) to not use relative paths.

[crisp wind]

apparently it says it cant open dependencies/GLFW/glfw.h yeah the folder was dependencies and not directories mb

[hoary cobalt]

that means the path might be wrong

can u take a screen recording of what you are doing to run right now? And also include showing your folder tree

[crisp wind]

oh yeah it will be dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw.h

now there's no error

fuck nvm what

helloworld.cpp:1:10: error: 'dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found with <angled> include; use "quotes" instead
1 | #include <dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| "dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h"
helloworld.cpp:26:9: warning: 'glClearColor' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 - OpenGL API deprecated. (Define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION to silence these warnings) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
26 | glClearColor(0.2f, 0.3f, 0.8f, 1.0f);
| ^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers/gl.h:2396:13: note: 'glClearColor' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
2396 | extern void glClearColor (GLclampf red, GLclampf green, GLclampf blue, GLclampf alpha) OPENGL_DEPRECATED(10.0, 10.14);
| ^
helloworld.cpp:29:9: warning: 'glClear' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 - OpenGL API deprecated. (Define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION to silence these warnings) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
29 | glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
| ^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers/gl.h:2394:13: note: 'glClear' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
2394 | extern void glClear (GLbitfield mask) OPENGL_DEPRECATED(10.0, 10.14);
| ^
2 warnings and 1 error generated.

[hoary cobalt]

helloworld.cpp:1:10: error: 'dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found with <angled> include; use "quotes" instead
    1 | #include <dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~
      |          "dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h"

First fix this error, ignore the rest. Just change your <> to ""

[junior palm]

This is not relative path (which is #include "dependencies/include/...."). That tells the compiler to seek headers that are included with -I... flag (like standard library headers such as <vector>, <string>).

[crisp wind]

#include <dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h>
to
#include "dependencies/include/GLFW/glfw3.h"

[hoary cobalt]

yup

[crisp wind]

warning: 'glClearColor' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 - OpenGL API deprecated. (Define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION to silence these warnings) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
26 | glClearColor(0.2f, 0.3f, 0.8f, 1.0f);
| ^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers/gl.h:2396:13: note: 'glClearColor' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
2396 | extern void glClearColor (GLclampf red, GLclampf green, GLclampf blue, GLclampf alpha) OPENGL_DEPRECATED(10.0, 10.14);
| ^
helloworld.cpp:29:9: warning: 'glClear' is deprecated: first deprecated in macOS 10.14 - OpenGL API deprecated. (Define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION to silence these warnings) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
29 | glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
| ^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers/gl.h:2394:13: note: 'glClear' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
2394 | extern void glClear (GLbitfield mask) OPENGL_DEPRECATED(10.0, 10.14);
| ^

2 warnings generated.
Undefined symbols for architecture arm64:
"_glClear", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glClearColor", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwCreateWindow", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwInit", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwMakeContextCurrent", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwPollEvents", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwSwapBuffers", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwTerminate", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwWindowHint", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
"_glfwWindowShouldClose", referenced from:
_main in helloworld-b21623.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture arm64
clang++: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

my god its almost joever

[hoary cobalt]

ok, looks like u got a lotta things messed up

[crisp wind]

yeah

[junior palm]

Could you please show me how you compile your CPP file?

[hoary cobalt]

i have time right now and im on my mac m1, how about i record a video setting everything up and u can just follow that step by step?

like a screen recording

[crisp wind]

oh damn

thats cool

please do that

[hoary cobalt]

gotchu bro i was in ur boat 2 years ago i know how it feels

[crisp wind]

those are some... pretty big words...

[junior palm]

I mean, I want to look at compiler flags :>

[crisp wind]

how did the words get bigger

[crisp wind]

if i follow your every step and i still have the error, im just deleting everything, reinstalling macos, and starting over

its so joever

[hoary cobalt]

hol on im getting it to work rn

for me first

in 10 minutes maybe itll be ready

[crisp wind]

take yo time

[hoary cobalt]

alright got it working for me,

time to record the video

[crisp wind]

otherwise, its gonna be a never for me

[crisp wind]

www

[hoary cobalt]

@crisp wind before u can follow u need to do 1 step

[crisp wind]

sure what is it

[hoary cobalt]

do you have homebrew installed?

[crisp wind]

i think so yeah

[hoary cobalt]

ok can u check by typing "brew list" into your terminal

[crisp wind]

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boost glfw openssl@3
brotli glog pcre2
c-ares icu4c@76 python@3.13
ca-certificates idb-companion readline
cocoapods ios-deploy ruby
double-conversion libevent snappy
edencommon libnghttp2 sqlite
fb303 libsodium wangle
fbthrift libuv watchman
fizz libyaml xxhash
fmt lz4 xz
folly mpdecimal zstd
gflags node

this is all it gave me

[hoary cobalt]

alright then u have it installed

[crisp wind]

w

[crisp wind]

its taking time huh

[hoary cobalt]

compressing the vid right now so i can send it

[crisp wind]

damn

.mov really is a fatass

[hoary cobalt]

Ok here is the video and the folders and file you need, just watch it it refers to these 5 things

Also make sure to rename the folders after you unzip to what they were named in the video.

Secondly when you unzip the folders that only have 1 file, its just gonna unzip that file, you need to put it in a folder named accordingly still

[crisp wind]

yoooooo wwww

[hoary cobalt]

does it work?

[crisp wind]

im deleting the folder rn

do i delete my cpp stuff as well, or do i just make the build inside that

[crisp wind]

?

[hoary cobalt]

just start from fresh

like doing what i did

[crisp wind]

alr

[crisp wind]

should libglfw.3.4.dylib be inside a folder called lib? cuz the zip extract gave me just the .dylib

[hoary cobalt]

ye

just put that inside a folder called lib like in the video