GLAF
OpenGL Advanced Functionality
 

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Tested platforms
  • Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.X and 6.X, with MIPSpro compilers. Both old 32bit and new n32 ABIs are supported. 64bit has not been tested, but GLAF is believed to be 64bit-compatible.
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 with Microsoft Visual Studio and NVIDIA 21.83 drivers, with GeForce2 GTS. (an older 12.41 version was also tested, but it had severe problems in the GL_ARB_imaging extension. The newer 21.83 version is preferred).
  • Linux with GNU compilers and NVIDIA drivers, with GeForce2 GTS (the tested drivers didn't support imaging features, but newer drivers may support them).
  • Mesa (tested with Mesa 4.0 under IRIX, but should work with other Mesa versions as well).


But it should also work with...

  • UNIX systems that support 'dlopen()' and OpenGL 1.0 or higher.
  • Any Windows PC with OpenGL development headers and libs installed.


GLUT compatibility

  • You can use GLAF from GLUT applications if you wish. Take a look at the demos for a hint (they're GLUT-based).
  • In the near future, when GLAF be ready to support WGL and GLX extensions and features, there will be a problem if one wants to access such features from GLUT (ie, pbuffers and MakeCurrentRead), since both the WGL and the GLX APIs use system-dependent arguments that are hidden by GLUT.

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