Top 3 glx Open-Source Projects

glad

43 3,498 7.2 C

Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.

Project mention: STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-06

there's glad (https://github.com/Dav1dde/glad) which you can use as a single .c file + .h header that defines OpenGL stuff or a single header-only file. I use it on all of my OpenGL projects!

glew

2 2,525 5.3 C

The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library
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sharedgl

1 45 8.8 C

An OpenGL implementation built for shared memory and networks, enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines and across devices on LAN

Project mention: SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines | /r/linux | 2023-08-08

The repository is located at https://github.com/dmaivel/sharedgl. The project is very much still in an alpha stage, with large portions of several OpenGL versions being missing. However, it can run demoes such as glxgears and minetest with decent performance. This project isn't really an effective replacement for VirGL (except for on Windows) due to its current limitations, however it does provide some 3D acceleration in Linux and Windows guests on QEMU/KVM. It should be noted it does not provide 3D acceleration for the entire VM, but rather passes through the OpenGL calls from one process from the VM to the host for rendering.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).