# Not understanding install - MSVC++ 2010

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/not-understanding-install-msvc-2010/264>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [November 4, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/not-understanding-install-msvc-2010/264 "2011-11-04T22:31:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/not-understanding-install-msvc-2010/264/1 "2011-11-04T22:31:02Z")

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**[daspirit](https://sourceforge.net/u/daspirit/)** wrote on [Friday, November 04, 2011](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/2afa157c/#9fee):

Hey, I’m new to GLFW, as you may have noticed and I am having trouble  
installing GLFW under Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Express. I have been searching  
for 2 days and tried various things on my own to install this and the readme  
itself is too confusing. I have installed SDL and GLEW before so I tried using  
those methods of installing but to no avail. Can someone explain the steps one  
by one for me? Here is what I’ve done:  
I have extracted and downloaded the files got GLFW 2.7.2. I opened the  
support-\>msvc10 and opened the project in there which I then built. I then  
found the glfw.lib and the glfwdll.lib files, and put it in my MSVC++ library  
folder. Afterwards, I put the glfw.dll file into my system32 folder. I  
approached to open my project folder and set GLFW.lib and opengl32.lib as  
additional dependencies. I am using the simple GLFW window code in the Users  
Guide but whatever I do gives me an error about the library. What am I doing  
wrong?

Sorry, I’m pretty much new to everything. I also want to statically link, by  
the way.