If you use MS Visual Studio 2005 Express, then you must download the Platform SDK from Microsoft. This will include the OpenGL library and most of the OpenGL headers.

If you have MS Visual Studio 2005 (not the Express version), then you already have the OpenGL library and most of the OpenGL headers.

You will need to download lib.zip which includes two folders. The first is named include and has all the remaining GL headers and the GLUT header. The second is named lib and has the GLUT library.

paramsurface.zip contains a project that is ready to go, out of the box, so long as you follow these instructions.

Step 1.

Go to C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005. In this folder, unzip the lib.zip file such that the folders lib and include are in this folder. The screen capture below shows how the folder should look after you have unzipped the lib.zip file.

Step 2.

To ensure that MS Windows knows where the GLUT DLL is located, we need to change your environment to have the path to the library.

Go to your control panel. Select System Properties. Go to the advanced tab and select Environment Variables. You should see a window that looks similar to the one below.

Next in the user variable section, select new. You will be presented with a dialog box similar to the one below. Under Variable name put PATH. Under Variable value put %PATH%;C:\Documents and Settings\YOURUSERNAME\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\lib; Don't forget to change your username to your real username. The window should look like the one below.

Click ok and the window should now have your new variable in the environment.

Step 3.

Unpack paramsurface.zip on your desktop. Navigate into the paramsurface directory and double click the paramsurface.vcproj file. This should open Visual Studio 2005.

Try building the project and note any errors and warnings. Submit them via email to the instructor.

Notes

There were no changes made to the code. All changes were made to the Project Properties under the Build menu within Visual Studio. An empty C++ project was used as a starting point.

The menu item that opens project's properties.

Adding additional include directories for headers.

Adding additional library directories for libraries.

Suppressing warnings and define math constants using preprocessor macros.

Additional headers were included from SGI's sample OpenGL implementation SDK.