Where are the OpenGL header files located on MacOSX?

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In /usr/include ,

I tried grepping for GL gl and OpenGL .. .but can't find it.

Where are these header files located?

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5 Answers

They are located at /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers. To include them, just use:

   #include <OpenGL/gl.h>
   #include <OpenGL/glu.h>
   #include <OpenGL/glext.h>
   #include <GLUT/glut.h>

etc. Make sure to link against the appropriate frameworks, eg)

cc <your_file.c> -framework GLUT -framework OpenGL

for OpenGL and GLUT

user_1851040

XCode automatically exposes all header files from a framework added to a project via the framework's name. So, "cocoa.h" is part of "cocoa.framework" - hence #include <cocoa/cocoa.h>

OpenGl is included <OpenGL/gl.h> rather than the more expected <GL/gl.h> on other platforms.

user_274910

In MacOS 10.12.6, they're under /opt/X11/include, e.g. /opt/X11/include/GL/gl.h.

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