Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New egg: opengl-glew

[Stephen Eilert]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Alex Charlton <address@hidden> 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