OpenGL C++ Boilerplate

A cross-platform boilerplate project for OpenGL using GLFW and GLEW in C++. Compilation is done with cmake.

I want to keep this project as simple as possible and is targetted to those who are learning modern OpenGL.

Cloning

The external/ folder contains all the external dependencies used, and they are tracked using git submodules. In order to compile the program, you should first clone the repository and then download the dependencies with git submodule init and git submodule update

Alternatively, you can achieve this with a one-liner as follows:

git clone git@github.com:andersonfreitas/opengl-boilerplate.git --recursive

Initializing GLEW

Before compiling, you should first generate the include/ folder for GLFW:

cd external/glew
make extensions

Build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Building with XCode

mkdir xcode && cd xcode
cmake -G "Xcode" ..

Then open the generated Project.xcodeproj project.

If you don't have CMake installed on your Mac, the easist way is to install is with Homebrew using brew install cmake

Building with Visual Studio

CMake comes with a diverse options of generators. Use the CMake GUI on Windows to automatically create a project solution based on this project.

Using a different dependency version

If you want to use a different version of any dependency tracked as a submodule, you just need to checkout the desired version in the repository:

cd external/my_dep
git checkout XXX
cd ..
git add external/my_dep
git commit -m "Using my_dep at branch/tag XXX"

Dependencies

• GLFW
• GLEW
• GLM
• CMake