THE question : opengl or glut

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by Daivuk December 02, 2004 08:18 AM

28 comments, last by Luke Philpot 19 years, 4 months ago

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December 03, 2004 09:16 AM

Quote:Original post by Puzzler183
Just use SDL. If you write Windows specific code, you are defeating the purpose of using OpenGL.

Not necessarily. You could write different compiler paths, based on what OS you're compiling for. You have to do that to some extent anyway. It's only a bunch of #ifdefs.

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DirectX Graphics?

I'd like to see you get that working on *nix.

Anyway, SDL is good. I don't know what people are saying about it being slow, I haven't found that at all. Sure beats writing window creation code for every OS I want to port my engine to.

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sand_man

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December 03, 2004 05:38 PM

when it comes to window management SDL is fast.

evolutional

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December 03, 2004 05:43 PM

If SDL is too heavyweight for you, you could always choose GLFW - it's lightweight and cross-platform. It'll handle your input (keys, mouse, joystick) and window management stuff. I used it for a while with no real problems.

_nomad_

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December 03, 2004 08:57 PM

SDL is the best way to go...those who say it's too slow compared to win32 obviously haven't tried SDL themselves nor do they have proofs or numbers to show SDL is noticeably slower...

Ademan555

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December 03, 2004 09:07 PM

You cannot say that SDL is not slower, it is inherrently slower because of its design, but it IS completely possible that the difference isnt noticeable.
-Dan

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_nomad_

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December 03, 2004 09:26 PM

Quote:Original post by Ademan555
You cannot say that SDL is not slower, it is inherrently slower because of its design, but it IS completely possible that the difference isnt noticeable.
-Dan

if this is directed to me...well, i never said anything contrary to what you said, did I? :)

Khaosifix

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December 03, 2004 09:43 PM

Use WinAPI with OpenGL. Its more industry standard(used more by professionals over the SDL+OpenGL combo) and it properly prepares you for the real world of programming.

My two cents.

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silvermace

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December 04, 2004 06:36 AM

Quote:Original post by Khaosifix
Use WinAPI with OpenGL. Its more industry standard(used more by professionals over the SDL+OpenGL combo) and it properly prepares you for the real world of programming.

My two cents.

well all i can say is, im lucky im not in your real world, i hate being stuck re-inventing the wheel over and over and over and over and over and over ... err... you get the picture. use whatever you think is good (*cough* SDL *cough*)

i personally use my own Win32 OpenGL-Init library that i wrote some 4-5 years ago, Direct Input and stuff, havnt touched it in 3-4 years (back then i didnt know about SDL :'( and google wasnt as powerfull as it is today)

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Daivuk

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December 07, 2004 05:07 PM

Ok, thanks all for your comments. I'm using the Win32 API and OpenGL since 2 years. Work fine. Building my engines on than. But I was just wondered about witch is better, but I read in a book that glut (that I have never used) is a little bit inapropriate for a commercial and fullscreen game. But for a little demo for the school glut is perfect. Of course due to the easy way to create windows. ;)

Luke Philpot

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December 07, 2004 07:21 PM

I've been using SDL and OpenGL for ages. I highly recommend it...

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