OpenGL Shader ERROR: 0:1: '' : syntax error #version

Question

I'm using xcode to make a game with OpenGL. I have used GLUT to initialise a window. I have shaders that I wish to implement but when I try to compile them, I get two compile errors in the info log. My shaders look like this:

//FirstShader.vsh
#version 150 core

in vec3 position;

void main()
{
    gl_Position = vec4(position, 1.0);
}

//FirstShader.fsh
#version 150 core

out vec4 fragData;

void main()
{
    fragData = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0);
}

I'm reading the file and compiling it with this code:

GLuint createShaderFromFile(const GLchar *path, GLenum shaderType){
GLuint shaderID = glCreateShader(shaderType);
std::ifstream fin;
fin.open(path);
if(!fin.is_open()){
    fin.close();
    std::cout << "Shader Not Found" << std:: endl;
    return 0;
}
std::string source((std::istreambuf_iterator<GLchar>(fin)),std::istreambuf_iterator<GLchar> ());

fin.close();

const GLchar* shaderSource = source.c_str();


glShaderSource(shaderID, 1, &shaderSource, NULL);

glCompileShader(shaderID);
GLint compileStatus;
glGetShaderiv(shaderID, GL_COMPILE_STATUS, &compileStatus);

if (compileStatus != GL_TRUE) {
    std::cout << "Shader failed to compile" << std::endl;
    GLint infoLoglength;
    glGetShaderiv(shaderID, GL_INFO_LOG_LENGTH, &infoLoglength);
    GLchar* infoLog = new GLchar[infoLoglength + 1];
    glGetShaderInfoLog(shaderID, infoLoglength, NULL, infoLog);
    std::cout << infoLog << std::endl;
    delete infoLog;
    return 0;
}


return shaderID;
}

Im getting these errors:

ERROR: 0:1: '' :  version '150' is not supported
ERROR: 0:1: '' : syntax error #version

My OpenGL version is 2.1 and my glsl version is 1.20. Does anybody know how I can fix this?

`version '150' is not supported` is quite a clear message, don't you think? What does `glGetString(GL_VERSION)` return, after you created the context? — derhass, Dec 14 '13 at 14:35
If your GLSL Version is 1.2 then you clearly do not support version 1.5, as the error and @derhass says. — vallentin, Dec 14 '13 at 15:47

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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You can tell OSX to use a newer version of OpenGL by setting it in your pixel format when you create the context. Here is an example of how to set it up.

Or if you're using glut, I think you want glutInitContextVersion(x, y); where x and y are the major and minor version numbers. GLSL 1.5 is supported in OpenGL 3.2, I think. (And you might also want glutInitContextProfile(GLUT_CORE_PROFILE);, I think.)

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Dec 14 '13 at 16:29

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glutInitContextVersion(x,y); doesnt work. ive tried the context profile line of code but they both give errors. – David Graovac Dec 14 '13 at 17:36
@DavidGraovac I'm not real familiar with glut, so I'm not sure what to tell you. Have you tried setting the shader version to 1.2 and seeing what happens? I don't think there's anything in your shaders that requires 1.5 at the moment. – user1118321 Dec 14 '13 at 22:03
Note that `glutInitContextVersion()` and friends are not part of the official GLUT spec, but extensions by [freeglut](http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/). Don't know which GLUT version DavidGraovac is using... – derhass Dec 15 '13 at 14:46

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '13 at 00:33

I re-wrote your shaders in a way that they will actually work in GLSL 1.20.

in must be replaced with attribute in a GLSL 1.20 vertex shader
out for fragment shader output is invalid, use gl_FragColor or gl_FragData [n] instead
Declaring a vertex attribute as vec3 and then doing something like vec4 (vtx, 1.0) is completely redundant
- If you declare the attribute as vec4 and give it data using fewer than 4 components GLSL will automatically fill-in the attribute's missing components this way: vec4 (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0).

Fragment Shader:

#version 120

attribute vec4 position;

void main()
{
  gl_Position = position;
}

Vertex Shader:

#version 120

void main()
{
  gl_FragColor = vec4(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0);
}

Of course this does not really solve your problem, because if you have a version of OS X 10.7 or newer, it supports OpenGL 3.2 and therefore GLSL 1.50 core. You need to request a core profile context for this to work, however - otherwise you will get OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.20.

OpenGL Shader ERROR: 0:1: '' : syntax error #version

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Fragment Shader:

Vertex Shader: