GLFW VS volk

I'm not familiar with LWJGL, my 5 seconds on their website makes me think you might be looking for something like GLFW https://www.glfw.org/ to handle I/O and window creation/management.

Consider GLFW3 for windowing and GLAD for function loading. I've used this combination myself successfully. Granted, that is "two things" you need, but OTOH it'll work well.

There is a pattern to it which is usable with every GitHub repository. For example, GLFW v3.3.8 can be fetched from: https://github.com/glfw/glfw/archive/refs/tags/3.3.8.tar.gz

What exactly would I fetch with this method? He's fetching a raylib url, but I don't really see a pattern in it I can follow when fetching glfw. I assume I can use this repository? https://github.com/glfw/glfw

I'm not sure how to fix it, sorry. I searched for some of the messages and found this bug: . I think overriding the LWJGL library might fix the issue, but I don't see any way to do that with the CurseForge launcher.

To go multiplatform with OpenGL / Vulkan (harder for a beginner) you can use a simple window library like GLFW and Dear ImGui for UI. I use these for Avoyd, along with a few other libraries.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(P1_PR) add_executable(P1_PR src/main.cpp ) find_package(GLFW QUIET) if(NOT GLFW_FOUND) message(STATUS "GLFW not found, fetching from GitHub...") include(FetchContent) FETCHCONTENT_DECLARE( GLFW GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/glfw/glfw/ GIT_TAG 3.3.8 ) FetchContent_GetProperties(GLFW) if (NOT GLFW_POPULATED) set(FETCHCONTENT_QUIET NO) FetchContent_Populate(GLFW) set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) set(BUILD_GAMES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) add_subdirectory(${glfw_SOURCE_DIR} ${glfw_BINARY_DIR}) endif() endif() find_package(GLEW QUIET) if(NOT GLEW_FOUND) message(STATUS "GLEW not found, fetching from GitHub...") include(FetchContent) FETCHCONTENT_DECLARE( GLEW GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/Perlmint/glew-cmake GIT_TAG glew-cmake-2.2.0 ) FetchContent_GetProperties(GLEW) if (NOT GLEW_POPULATED) set(FETCHCONTENT_QUIET NO) FetchContent_Populate(GLEW) set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) set(BUILD_GAMES OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE) add_subdirectory(${glew_SOURCE_DIR} ${glew_BINARY_DIR}) endif() endif() target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${GLFW_SOURCE_DIR} PRIVATE ${GLEW_SOURCE_DIR} ) target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} glfw glew32 opengl32 gdi32 glm ) target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE cxx_std_20)

I recently started following the Learn OpenGL tutorial and noticed that when I create a window with GLFW in the Wayland GNOME session the cursor becomes much larger when hovering over the window. This is because a Wayland client is expected to define its own pointer (cursor) and that seems to lead to inconsistencies between implementations. I do not have a problem with CSD being default on Wayland (I even prefer it when done really well, like Telegram Desktop, or any GTK app with GtkHeaderBar) but the cursor switching scale while moving it over surfaces (windows) is much more jarring.

You also should not link to Vulkan directly (-lvulkan) but retrieve the function pointers to the Vulkan functions by yourself or using a loder library like volk.

For developing with Vulkan all you need are the Vulkan Headers and some kind of static loader to link against or you use a dynamic loader like volk.