Recommendations for a lightweight cross platform windowing library?

• freeglut

  8 668 6.8 C

  Free implementation of the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT)

  

FreeGLUT - Modeled after the old GLUT from the early days of OpenGL. Very light; supported by almost all desktop (Win, Mac, Posix) platforms.

• GLFW

  78 12,205 9.3 C

  A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

  

Like, creating windows and context for OpenGL? GLFW is a popular choice, and has a lot of documentation (Not entirely sure how lightweight it is, though!)

• InfluxDB

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• nuklear

  62 8,515 8.3 C

  A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library (by Immediate-Mode-UI)

  

Just in case what you're looking for is windowing and a UI inside your OpenGL context Nuklear is basically the,only on I know of that isn't C++

• SDL-1.2

  3 83 7.5 C

  Simple Directmedia Layer, 1.2 branch ... ***DEPRECATED***, please use https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL for new projects!

  

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.

• sokol

  38 5,921 9.7 C

  minimal cross-platform standalone C headers

• WorkOS

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