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[Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew
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Alex Charlton |
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[Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 16:12:08 -0400 |
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mu4e 0.9.9.5; emacs 24.3.1 |
opengl-glew provides bindings to OpenGL’s core profile while handling extension
loading with GLEW:
https://github.com/AlexCharlton/chicken-opengl-glew
There are two existing eggs that have some degree of overlap with this one. The
opengl egg provides only the older fixed function pipeline API. OpenGL has
changed the majority of its API since then, so it’s not useful for writing
modern graphics programs. The allegro egg provides some more recent OpenGL
bindings (they seem to have been last updated in 2012), but relies on Allegro
which not everyone wants as a dependency.
opengl-glew uses the widely used GLEW to handle its extension loading, making
this egg immediately useful to most programmers who work with modern OpenGL.
Further, it is guaranteed to always be up-to-date with the latest OpenGL core
profile, because it downloads the glcorearb header file from opengl.org and
uses it to generate its bindings. Some high-level convenience functions are
also provided.
Mario, could you please add this to the egg list:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexCharlton/chicken-opengl-glew/master/opengl-glew.release-info
Thanks!
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Alex
- [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew,
Alex Charlton <=
Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew, Stephen Eilert, 2014/04/16