First of all, if you want a basic HowTo for a quick introduction that lets you begin using GLAF, see the "Basic Use" page of the website (also available in the 'website' directory when you unpacked the GLAF distribution in your system).

Include files

• You must include 'glaf.h' in all your application files that access GLAF functions.
• Optionally, you can also include 'gl2glaf.h' if you want to use OpenGL function names rather than GLAF function names. You must always include 'glaf.h' before including 'gl2glaf.h'. If you'll use GLAF function names, you don't need to include 'gl2glaf.h'.
• Or, if you're going to compile code that was originally developed to run with core function names (ie: assuming all features were implemented in the core), you can include 'auto_gl2glaf.h' instead of 'gl2glaf.h'. The 'auto_gl2glaf.h' file defines OpenGL function names in a way that takes care of testing feature availability before actually calling the function. This include file is for the purpose of doing "easy ports" only, because it will do a call to 'glaf_IsXXXXXSupported()' whenever you call a function that belongs to feature XXXXX, which is not what you want when you're developing new code (you'll probably prefer to call 'glaf_IsXXXXXSupported()' yourself).

• Context management functions.
• Capabilities functions.
• HowTo Extend GLAF mini-guide.