freeglut
Free implementation of the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) (by freeglut)
SDL-1.2
Simple Directmedia Layer, 1.2 branch ... ***DEPRECATED***, please use https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL for new projects! (by libsdl-org)
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6.8 | 7.4 | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
freeglut
Posts with mentions or reviews of freeglut.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
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Modern OpenGL loading library solution
I'm guessing you're thinking of the GLUT spec, of which FreeGLUT is an implementation.
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Getting started with Graphics in C
If you are going down the glut way, it's freeglut what you should be looking at https://freeglut.sourceforge.net/
- OpenGl and C++ tutor
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Memory leaks when using freeglut
I don't expect any of the memory leaks you discovered to originate in freeglut, but if you think there is an issue with it, please report it on our bug tracker on github (https://github.com/FreeGLUTProject/freeglut/issues), with all the relevant information (like this program, and valgrind output, or whatever else is relevant).
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Adding a cylinder to an already built project
an alternative to GLUT is FreeGLUT, but the problem with that is that It's not as useful as GLFW still
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Recommendations for a lightweight cross platform windowing library?
FreeGLUT - Modeled after the old GLUT from the early days of OpenGL. Very light; supported by almost all desktop (Win, Mac, Posix) platforms.
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How to detect when left mouse button is released in GLUT after being held in motion?
Eh, the FreeGLUT folks are keeping the dream(?) alive.
SDL-1.2
Posts with mentions or reviews of SDL-1.2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Is there a cross-platform graphics library that can run without X or wayland that runs on the BSD's bare-metal?
But that made me look up the (much) older version, SDL 1.2 which appears to use a 2D framebuffer and mentions several BSDs. So maybe OP would find it useful, either to use or just to read the source code for seeing how BSD framebuffer usage works (worked?). https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL-1.2
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Recommendations for a lightweight cross platform windowing library?
SDL - The older 1.2 version. However this has portability benefits to older platforms (old Linux, Amiga, etc). It is also simpler than SDL2 and as such can be easily "mapped" on-top of other APIs. For example Emscripten provides it inbuilt, mapped over the DOM / Canvas stuff.
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how can I learn SDL 1.2 and not SDL 2
SDL has a github, and there's a separate repository for 1.2 with HTML documentation in it: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL-1.2/tree/main/docs
What are some alternatives?
When comparing freeglut and SDL-1.2 you can also consider the following projects:
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
Pygame - 🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
sokol - minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
ccleste - Celeste Classic C source port for 3DS and PC.
nuklear - A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
glad-web - Webinterface for glad -> https://github.com/Dav1dde/glad