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This template provides preconfigured glad, glfw, and opengl starter code that is built using a g++/make build system so that you can continue learning OpenGL without having to care about the tedious extra stuff

Requirements: Windows does not come by default with make(see note) or g++. So you need to get it at https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/. I built from source(but prebuilt binaries also exist) the w64devkit version 1.20.0 since its additional packages also includes make.

Note: Question: Do you need make? Answer: No, you can also use window native tools like .bat file and just run that. But if you are going to get a c++ compiler, you might as well pick up Make as well.

For Example: // FILE: make.bat g++ -o main ./src/main.cpp -L./lib/ -lglfw3 -lgdi32 -lopengl32