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Most examples on the web uses OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT), and we'll need to install that on top of the MinGW installation. The downloadable GLUT packages contains libraries for Visual Studio, which are incompatible with MinGW. If we want to use MinGW, libraries in the GNU format are needed.
You can find them here
The easy way to install them is in these locations:
C:\mingw\include\glut.h C:\mingw\lib\libglut32.a C:\windows\system\glut32.dll
C:\>gcc something.c -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32
If the program uses windows.h, like the Neon Helium OpenGL Tutorials, you must link to the windows libraries also:
C:\>gcc something.c -mwindows -lglut32 -lglu32 -lopengl32