Where do i download the Opengl SDK ?

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming OpenGL

Started by pavelreuk January 20, 2009 01:16 PM

3 comments, last by Bregma 15 years, 3 months ago

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January 20, 2009 01:16 PM

Hello, Could someone please help me find out where to download the opengl SDK? I looked all over the www.opengl.org website and didn't find the opengl SDK. Please help?

shwasasin

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January 20, 2009 01:22 PM

There is no OpenGL SDK to download. The GL.h header is shipped with the Windows SDK/Platform SDK's by Microsoft. Keep in mind these are very very old and do not expose much functionality beyond OpenGL 1.1/2.

You access new functionality yourself by loading each new function using wglGetProcAddress which can be very irritating. To make things easy, do a google search for GLEE or another a similar opengl extension library. They take care of loading all the extensions in a simple manner. Hope this helps.

V-man

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January 20, 2009 04:44 PM

The SDK is actually a collection of SDK
http://www.opengl.org/sdk/
Call it an SDK if you want.

There is also the wiki
http://www.opengl.org/wiki

Sig: http://glhlib.sourceforge.net
an open source GLU replacement library. Much more modern than GLU.
float matrix[16], inverse_matrix[16];
glhLoadIdentityf2(matrix);
glhTranslatef2(matrix, 0.0, 0.0, 5.0);
glhRotateAboutXf2(matrix, angleInRadians);
glhScalef2(matrix, 1.0, 1.0, -1.0);
glhQuickInvertMatrixf2(matrix, inverse_matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation1, 1, FALSE, matrix);
glUniformMatrix4fv(uniformLocation2, 1, FALSE, inverse_matrix);

avocados

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January 21, 2009 01:02 PM

Want to get started with OpenGL really quick? Use the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library to create an OpenGL rendering context.

1. Get the SDL runtime library
2. Compile this example OpenGL app right now as is.
3. Buy the red book and use the online reference when needed.

Bregma

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January 21, 2009 01:26 PM

Quote:Original post by pavelreuk
Could someone please help me find out where to download the opengl SDK?

(1) Do you have a specific target platform in mind (Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux for i386, amd64, ARM, PPC, ant farms, etc etc etc)?

(2) Do have have a specific OpenGL in mind (OpenGL 1, 2, 3, OpenGL ES 1, 2)?

(3) Do you need commercial support?

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