How to start learning OpenGL
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Oh. I think I get it. So I can build a program, say a game or a GUI system, and it should work the same on most other cards? So I would have to do a bit of research on the major cards and see what specific extended functions they have, right? I thank you so much for your help. But one more question. If I have to include the .H header files to include the libraries, where do I get those in order to include them? Are they in the hardware too?
They usually come with your compiler. Look at your compiler's include directory, there should be a subdirectory called 'gl'.
EDIT: See DrTypo's post:
EDIT: See DrTypo's post:
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Since it is a standard library, most C++ compiler comes with OpenGL header files & libs.
On Windows, it is included in Microsoft Platform SDK, freely downloadable on Microsoft website. On Linux, libs & headers are usually available by default.
However this will give you only access to OpenGL 1.1.
To access latest versions of OpenGL, you need to ask the driver for extensions.
Helpful people have made libraries that does this for you, check out GLEE or GLEW.
There are a few interesting links here: http://www.opengl.org/sdk/
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