[Plib-users] The Necessity of DLL's

[Matt J. <mat...@fa...>]

Hi, I'm new to PLIB and am just looking into whether it is suitable for
my project.

The application will be on win32 (with a later view to porting across
platforms) and I expect to use either GLUT or freeglut.

Does this mean I will have to provide the glut32.dll with my project? 
Despite the possibility of statically linking with libraries like
glut32.lib it still seems all GLUT apps require this DLL too, and
ideally I want to minimise dependencies...

So maybe freeglut is better for this (ie. it may allow static linking
without using any DLL's at runtime)?  Indeed I would much prefer to use
freeglut for a variety of reasons.
Hoping this question is not misplaced: what do I need to do to build an
application with freeglut (and remove dependencies on GLUT)?  I know in
readme.GLUT it says it does not depend on glut, but without the DLL
there anything I try still gives the same 'unable to locate glut32.dll'.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Cheers,

Matt