It's a WIP game project

Never.

It's about -classified information-. For now I'm just following learnopengl.com tutorials

You need the following libraries into your path, or in the same folder with the program executable:

• glew32.lib
• glfw3.lib
• SOIL.lib

You also do need the following includes:

• GL/glew.h
• GLFW/glfw3.h
• GLM
• SOIL.h

No.