[Chicken-hackers] SDL as an OpenGL windowng toolkit

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 2/4/07, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But GLUT is the most ancient dead and buried code out there.  It's not
> > under open source license and the last version of it belongs in a
> > crypt.  There are alternatives such as FreeGLUT which are more modern,
> > but I won't vouch for FreeGLUT.  Didn't look like that active of a
> > project, last I checked.  FLTK seemed to have much more recent
> > development behind it.
>
> IIRC, SDL is quite established as a GL "wrapper", isn't it? (probably 
> plus
> custom widget libraries).

I'm never quite sure of SDL's relationship to OpenGL.  SDL is a front 
end for a lot of 2D windowing systems, not just OpenGL.  SDL is both old 
and huge.  It may be hard to maintain.  I suppose it should be looked at 
though.  I have my doubts that it's the right foundation.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every