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GLFW
Developer(s)
The GLFW Development Team
Stable release
3.4
/ February 23, 2024; 2 months ago (2024-02-23)[1]
Repository
github.com/glfw/glfw
Written in
C
Operating system
Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
Platform
Cross-platform
Type
API
License
zlib/libpng License[2]
Website
www.glfw.org
GLFW (Graphics Library Framework) is a lightweight utility library for use with OpenGL. It provides programmers with the ability to create and manage windows and OpenGL contexts, as well as handle joystick, keyboard and mouse input.[3]
GLFW (Graphics Library Framework) is a lightweight utility library for use with OpenGL. It provides programmers with the ability to create and manage windows...
written in C++ with back-ends for several graphics APIs (Allegro 5, DirectX, GLFW, iOS, Marmalade, Metal, OpenGL, SDL 2 and Vulkan), that also has projects...
April 2015 and is a complete rewrite of LWJGL. Many new bindings, including GLFW, EGL and Objective-C, were added. Support for Oculus Rift development was...
freeglut. GLFW is a newer alternative. These toolkits are designed to create and manage OpenGL windows, and manage input, but little beyond that. GLFW – A cross-platform...
particularly suited for large crowd simulations. The engine is also compatible with GLFW. The major part of the graphics engine was originally written for the indie...
engineered C++ source code, with support for multiple platforms based on GLFW, including the Nintendo Switch. Source code available at GitHub. It was hit...
intended to be a full replacement for GLUT, and has only a few differences. GLFW Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) OpenGL User Interface Library (GLUI) OpenGL...
Most of these plugins are based on other open-source libraries, such as GLFW, SDL and Box2D (LiquidFun fork). Build files are provided for GCC makefiles...
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