Attempt to call an undefined function glutInit

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I need a glut window in python.
I have the following exception using Python 3.5 and PyOpenGL.GLUT

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:...Test.py", line 47, in <module>

    if __name__ == '__main__': main()
  File "D:...Test.py", line 9, in main
    glutInit(sys.argv)
  File "C:...OpenGLGLUTspecial.py", line 333, in glutInit
    _base_glutInit( ctypes.byref(count), holder )
  File "C:...OpenGLplatformbaseplatform.py", line 407, in __call__
    self.__name__, self.__name__,

OpenGL.error.NullFunctionError: Attempt to call an undefined function glutInit,
check for bool(glutInit) before calling

Platform: Windows

Why do i get this error?

Here is my code:

from OpenGL.GLUT import *
import sys

glutInit(sys.argv)

Asked By: Szabolcs Dombi

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Answer 1

Problems:

There was no problem with pip install or easy_install
The glut.dll and glut32.dll were missing. (They are not part of the PyPI package) you have to install them separately or download it like I did.

Unzipped the dll files from the glutdlls.zip and placed them next to my python file.

Note: You can add the dll files to your PATH variable. Not necessary to keep them next to the py file.

Answered By: Szabolcs Dombi

Answer 2

I was being thrown the same error message. I tried installing the DLLs separately and everything and nothing worked.
The code that gave me the error was calling the glutInit() function. While I was getting the error, my imports looked like:

import OpenGL
import OpenGL.GL
import OpenGL.GLUT
import OpenGL.GLU

I then changed my imports to:

import OpenGL
from OpenGL.GL import *
from OpenGL.GLUT import *
from OpenGL.GLU import *

and the error was fixed.

Answered By: Jay Seiner

Answer 3

i cannot install the "dll" files, but works me fine install the PyOpenGL from "freeglut.sourceforge.net"
https://freeglut.sourceforge.net/index.php#download

There i download the last version and use the:
python -m pip install C:Usersdir-pathPyOpenGL-316-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl –force-reinstall
Warning: I had to change the name of the wheel file because the points "." has not permitted in the filename

Answered By: Gaston Carrera

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