Linking GLFW in CodeBlocks - opengl

Question

CodeBlocks' GLFW Project is outdated and works only with GLFW 2.7. I am using the latest version, which is 3.0.4, and trying to link it in CodeBlocks statically (I hope that I am using the correct terminology). I would be really happy if someone told me how to do it step by step. I would also like to create an empty project if possible and do everything manually.
This is the code that I am trying to run:
#include <GLFW/glfw3.h>
int main(void)
{
GLFWwindow* window;
/* Initialize the library */
if (!glfwInit())
return -1;
/* Create a windowed mode window and its OpenGL context */
window = glfwCreateWindow(640, 480, "Hello World", NULL, NULL);
if (!window)
{
glfwTerminate();
return -1;
}
/* Make the window's context current */
glfwMakeContextCurrent(window);
/* Loop until the user closes the window */
while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window))
{
/* Render here */
/* Swap front and back buffers */
glfwSwapBuffers(window);
/* Poll for and process events */
glfwPollEvents();
}
glfwTerminate();
return 0;
}
This is what I have in my "Other linker options":
-lmingw32 -lopengl32 -lgdi32
and I also copied GLFW folder that is containing the header files in CodeBlocks/MinGW/include.
This is pretty much all I did and I get the following build log:
-------------- Build: Debug in Initializing OpenGL (compiler: GNU GCC Compiler)---------------
mingw32-g++.exe -o "bin\Debug\Initializing OpenGL.exe" obj\Debug\main.o -lmingw32 -lopengl32 -lgdi32
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `main':
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:8: undefined reference to `glfwInit'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:12: undefined reference to `glfwCreateWindow'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:15: undefined reference to `glfwTerminate'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:20: undefined reference to `glfwMakeContextCurrent'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:28: undefined reference to `glfwSwapBuffers'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:31: undefined reference to `glfwPollEvents'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:23: undefined reference to `glfwWindowShouldClose'
D:/Development/OpenGL/Initializing OpenGL/main.cpp:34: undefined reference to `glfwTerminate'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Answer 1

Jigger your project config so that the mingw invocation looks something like this:
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe -Llib -o bin\Debug\glfw-proj.exe obj\Debug\main.o -lglfw3 -lopengl32 -lgdi32
Note the -lglfw3.
Procedure:
Project -> Build options...
Select the top-level configuration (i.e., not Debug or Release)
In the Search directories -> Compiler tab add the path to your GLFW headers (GLFW/glfw3.h and friend)
In the Search directories -> Linker tab add the path to your GLFW library files (libglfw3.a and friends)
In the Linker settings tab add 3 Link libraries: glfw3, opengl32, and gdi32.