gl

gl-rs

An OpenGL function pointer loader for the Rust Programming Language.

[dependencies]
gl = "0.14.0"

Basic usage

You can import the pointer style loader and type aliases like so:

extern crate gl;
// include the OpenGL type aliases
use gl::types::*;

You must load the function pointers into their respective function pointers using the load_with function. You must supply a loader function from your context library. This is how it would look using glfw-rs:

// the supplied function must be of the type:
// `&fn(symbol: &'static str) -> *const std::os::raw::c_void`
// `window` is a glfw::Window
gl::load_with(|s| window.get_proc_address(s) as *const _);

// loading a specific function pointer
gl::Viewport::load_with(|s| window.get_proc_address(s) as *const _);

Calling a function that has not been loaded will result in a failure like: panic!("gl::Viewport was not loaded"), which avoids a segfault. This feature does not cause any run time overhead because the failing functions are assigned only when load_with is called.

All OpenGL function calls are unsafe.

// accessing an enum
gl::TEXTURE_2D;

// calling a function
unsafe { gl::DrawArrays(gl::TRIANGLES, 0, 3) };

Each function pointer has an associated boolean value allowing you to check if a function has been loaded at run time. The function accesses a corresponding global boolean that is set when load_with is called, so there shouldn't be much overhead.

if gl::Viewport::is_loaded() {
    // do something...
}