#version syntax will not work on Visual Studio C++

[hochinimh51]

I can’t get the ‘#version’ syntax to compile and when I do, I get this error:

1>triangle.vert(1): fatal error C1021: invalid preprocessor command ‘version’

Am I don’t something wrong? The file I’m working with is a .vert file and the file name is ‘triangle.vert’.
Here’s the code for this file:

#version 430 core

layout(location = 0) in vec4 vPosition;

void main()
{
gl_Position = vPosition;
}

I’m getting this from a book but it doesn’t seem to help with it comes to actually setting up files.

The name of this book is called: “OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Version 4.3 (8th Edition)”

[carsten_neumann]

You don’t compile GLSL with your C/C++ compiler, but with the compiler that is part of your OpenGL implementation. Your application only needs to load the contents of the file as a text string and pass that to glShaderSource(); compilation of shaders happens a runtime.

[Alfonse_Reinheart]

This is how you compile GLSL. As previously stated, it happens at runtime, not by compiling things with your compiler.