Cannot get gfwl source package to work in vscode

Question

I wanted to learn OpenGl because I was just getting into c++ and I thought it would be cool to learn but now I'm stuck and I don't know what to do.

So basically I am not using the microsoft version of VScode, I am using your basic VScode application. I install MinGw and added it to the path. and i created a folder, in that file i created a main.cpp file and downloaded the source folder (source package) of gfwl from the main page and I tried different ways of including it into my cpp file i tried the path of gfwl from the system <GFWL/gfwl3.h> the files directory to gfwl3.h

and none of them seem to work, I either get a "directory or file path invalid" or errors on it failing to import its functions like gfwlinit

how could i make this work?

Answer 1

Make sure to add it to the path and use a MakeFile to compile and to connect everything!