Getting Access violation exception thrown when setting up raylib with visual studio 2022

Question

I wanted to learn game dev in C++ lately, so I decided to setup raylib in Visal Studio 2022 by following a tutorial online. I downloaded the latest release from the raylib github repo and configured Additional Directories/Additional Dependencies. raylib.h would successfully show up when I did #include but the issue comes up whenever I use any function:

#include "raylib.h"
int main() {
 InitWindow(1280, 800, "Raylib");
 CloseWindow(); // Exception throws at this line.
 return 0;
}

Error:

Exception thrown at 0x00007FF6A4F896AA in RaylibTest.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000000000360.

I noticed that there was no raylib.dll in Debug > Windows > Modules which might be the culprit, but I do not know how to fix that.

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Answer 1

Raylib provides a option to override OpenGL versions used in the options.

• Aayan Tanvir: I downloaded the raylib.dll file from the link which is supposed to work on OpenGL 3.1 and less and I replaced the old raylib.dll with the new one alongside my .exe file. It did nothing. This might be the actual issue because my machine supports OpenGL 3.1
• Jesper Juhl: Please don't just download random files from the internet and use them in your project. That's stupid and you won't get a portable application that way. You have no way to know what that random thing you downloaded does.