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This is less a specific answer to the question, but a general hint on how to set up an OpenGL context because i feel it will answer the question automatically. The same procedure is used for instance by 'learnopengl.com' and possibly others I don't know. My system is a Debian 10, but it should work on Windows as well.

1.) Headers to be included:

2.) Initialize glfw, load opengl functions:

Now two things are still mssing, the glfw_debug_callback and the glDebugCallback. I leave the function body out because mines are pretty verbose:

void APIENTRY glDebugOutput( GLenum source, GLenum type, GLuint id, GLenum severity,
    GLsizei length, const GLchar *message, const void *userParam ) {
// Ignore non-significant error/warning codes
// pseudcode: if( id == 131169 || id = whateverelse ) return;
/* stitch togehter and format a msg from source: 
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_API, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_WINDOW_SYSTEM,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_SHADER_COMPILER, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_OTHER
   type:
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_DEPRECATED_BEHAVIOR;
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PORTABILITY,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PERFORMANCE, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_MARKER,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PUSH_GROUP, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_POP_GROUP,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER
   and severity:
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM,
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_NOTIFICATION */
   // add the message text and eventually add userdata
   // log/output

}

With this one receives meaningfull messages on error conditions. Checking glError is not necessary any more and parametrized one can run with a debug context and without, saving a bit of performance.

This is less a specific answer to the question, but a general hint on how to set up an OpenGL context because I feel it will answer the question automatically. The same procedure is used for instance by 'learnopengl.com' and possibly others I don't know. My system is a Debian 10, but it should work on Windows as well.

1 - Headers to be included:

2 - Initialize glfw, load opengl functions:

Now two things are still missing, the glfw_debug_callback and the glDebugCallback. I leave the function body out because mine is pretty verbose:

void APIENTRY glDebugOutput( GLenum source, GLenum type, GLuint id, GLenum severity,
    GLsizei length, const GLchar *message, const void *userParam ) {
// Ignore non-significant error/warning codes
// pseudcode: if( id == 131169 || id = whateverelse ) return;
/* stitch togehter and format a msg from source: 
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_API, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_WINDOW_SYSTEM,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_SHADER_COMPILER, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_OTHER
   type:
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_DEPRECATED_BEHAVIOR;
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PORTABILITY,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PERFORMANCE, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_MARKER,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PUSH_GROUP, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_POP_GROUP,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER
   and severity:
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM,
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_NOTIFICATION */
   // add the message text and eventually add userdata
   // log/output
}

With this one receives meaningful messages on error conditions. Checking glError is not necessary any more and parameterized one can run with a debug context and without, saving a bit of performance.

glfwSetErrorCallback( glfw_error_callback );
if( GL_TRUE != glfwInit() ) {
    // didn't work
}
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4 );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 5 );
if( gl_window.debug_enabled )
    glfwWindowHint( GLFW_OPENGL_DEBUG_CONTEXT, GLFW_TRUE );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CLIENT_API, GLFW_OPENGL_API );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE );

void APIENTRY glDebugOutput( GLenum source, GLenum type, GLuint id, GLenum severity,
    GLsizei length, const GLchar *message, const void *userParam ) {
// Ignore non-significant error/warning codes
// pseudcode: if( id == 131169 || id = whateverelse ) return;
/* stitch togehter and format a msg from source: 
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_API, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_WINDOW_SYSTEM,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_SHADER_COMPILER, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_OTHER
   type:
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_DEPRECATED_BEHAVIORbreak;
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PORTABILITY,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PERFORMANCE, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_MARKER,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PUSH_GROUP, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_POP_GROUP,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER
   and severity:
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM,
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_NOTIFICATION */
   // add the message text and eventually add userdata
   // log/output

glfwSetErrorCallback( glfw_error_callback );
if( GL_TRUE != glfwInit() ) {
    // didn't work, can't carry on
}
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4 );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 5 );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_OPENGL_DEBUG_CONTEXT, GLFW_TRUE );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_CLIENT_API, GLFW_OPENGL_API );
glfwWindowHint( GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE );

void APIENTRY glDebugOutput( GLenum source, GLenum type, GLuint id, GLenum severity,
    GLsizei length, const GLchar *message, const void *userParam ) {
// Ignore non-significant error/warning codes
// pseudcode: if( id == 131169 || id = whateverelse ) return;
/* stitch togehter and format a msg from source: 
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_API, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_WINDOW_SYSTEM,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_SHADER_COMPILER, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_THIRD_PARTY,
   GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_APPLICATION, GL_DEBUG_SOURCE_OTHER
   type:
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_ERROR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_DEPRECATED_BEHAVIOR;
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_UNDEFINED_BEHAVIOR, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PORTABILITY,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PERFORMANCE, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_MARKER,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_PUSH_GROUP, GL_DEBUG_TYPE_POP_GROUP,
   GL_DEBUG_TYPE_OTHER
   and severity:
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_HIGH, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_MEDIUM,
   GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_LOW, GL_DEBUG_SEVERITY_NOTIFICATION */
   // add the message text and eventually add userdata
   // log/output

With this one shoudl receive meaningfull messages on error conditions. Checking glError is not necessary and more and parametrized one can run with a debug context and without, saving a bit of performance.

With this one receives meaningfull messages on error conditions. Checking glError is not necessary any more and parametrized one can run with a debug context and without, saving a bit of performance.