MacOS M1 -> fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found - c++

Question

I have a project (here) that works both on Linux and intel MacOS, but in my Mac m1 it doesn't. Whenever I try to compile it, I get the following errors (ops.: I'm using vscode m1 native):
pedrohaccorsi#MacBook-Air-de-Pedro dev % make
g++ -o app src/glad.c src/AudioManager.cpp src/Character.cpp src/SceneManager.cpp src/Source.cpp src/Sprite.cpp src/stb_image.cpp -g -Iinclude -F/Library/Frameworks -lglfw -ldl -framework SDL2 -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2.framework/Headers -framework SDL2_mixer -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2_mixer.framework/Headers
In file included from src/AudioManager.cpp:1:
include/AudioManager.h:1:10: fatal error: 'SDL2/SDL.h' file not found
#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
In file included from src/Character.cpp:1:
In file included from include/Character.h:1:
In file included from include/Sprite.h:6:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
In file included from src/SceneManager.cpp:1:
In file included from include/SceneManager.h:3:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
src/Source.cpp:10:17: warning: using directive refers to implicitly-defined namespace 'std'
using namespace std;
^
In file included from src/Source.cpp:12:
In file included from include/SceneManager.h:3:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 warning and 1 error generated.
In file included from src/Sprite.cpp:1:
In file included from include/Sprite.h:6:
include/Shader.h:13:10: fatal error: 'GLFW/glfw3.h' file not found
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [app] Error 1
Before hand I ran these three commands and they worked successfully, no errors nor warnings at all, so I assumed it was all working fine.
brew install glfw
brew install sdl2
brew install sdl2_mixer
Anyone has any ideas?

Answer 1

My issue was partially solved. There were two problems, GLFWand SDL2.
GLFW
The fix was the same proposed in this thread; in a nutshell it consists in:
$ nano ~/.zshrc
> export CPATH=/opt/homebrew/include
> export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/homebrew/lib
This will tell the compiler to look for things in opt/homebrew, which is where homebrew for m1 installs the packages, instead of usr/local.
SDL2
I downloaded the two .dmg files from the websites below
https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
Then I went to the downloads and copied the .framework directory from both downloads and pasted into /Library/Frameworks.
This solved those errors from before, that the system could not find the includes, but a new error showed up: symbols not found for architecture arm64. I decided to quit trying and just removed the sound out of my game (it was a college assignment, no biggie in taking features out).

Answer 2

On MacOS Monterey 12.6 I fixed the issue by installing xcode, then installed with homebrew:
glew
glfw3
xquartz
brew install glew glfw3
brew install --cask xquartz
Then I pointed to the X11 folders and sample OpenGL program compiled.
The github source code was taken from: https://github.com/zamirmf/OpenGLOnMac
For example:
clang -o testopengl main.cpp \
-L/opt/X11/lib -L/opt/homebrew/lib \
-I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/homebrew/include \
-lglfw -framework OpenGL