I am trying to get into c++/freeglut programming, yet I feel like an absolute monkey. The tutorials refer to a Freeglut.dll file that is in the bin folder. But as I unpacked the newest version of the freeglut binary, I was unable to find the bin folder or the .dll-file.
I was tying to install freeglut in my code::blocks.
I don't know exactly what to do. (Don't make fun of me if my problem is stupid, I am borderline new to programing)
sorry for my bad english, it is not my first language.
I tried to follow many tutorials, but all of them refer to a file I was unable to find.
You probably downloaded the source code. You would still have to compile this source code to get the desired dll file. It could be that your system already has a precompiled package of freeglut
On some systems such as Debian and Ubuntu, it is as simple as running:
apt install freeglut3-dev
There are also binaries for Windows MSVC and MinGW, which do indeed contain a DLL file in the bin folder.
Otherwise you can build from source:
Also if you can't find a suitable package for your system, don't panic; building freeglut from source is very easy, just follow the instructions in README.cmake in the freeglut source.