Setting up GLUT in VS.NET 2003

In order to use OpenGL's GLUT in Visual Studio .NET 2003, you need to download the GLUT Win32 port from the following webpage http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html

Installing GLUT for VS.NET 2003
1) Download the binaries (http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut/glut-3.7.6-bin.zip) and unzip accordingly

2) Copy "glut.h" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\include" (assuming your VS.NET 2003 resides in the above folder)

3) Copy "glut32.lib" to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\lib"

4) Copy "glut32.dll" to "C:\Windows\System32"

This will take care of the compilation in VS.NET 2003.

Error with exit() in VS.NET 2003
Now, VS.NET 2003 seems to have a problem with using both GLUT and C++ Standard Library. It will complain of the exit() function being redefined. Do this ...

(1) Go to the offending line in stdlib.h (when you double-click on the error message, VS.NET will open stdlib.h and position the ‘erroneous’ code). Change it to the following

#ifndef GLUT_API_VERSION
_CRTIMP __declspec(noreturn) void __cdecl exit(int);
#endif

Add the #ifndef GLUT... and #endif preprocessor into your code and it would compile without a problem.