On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Alex Charlton <alex.n.charl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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!
>
>
This is awesome! Thank you :)


-- Stephen
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