OpenGL Tutorials

Tutorials made by IMAC students to learn, debug and use efficiently OpenGL.

Table of Contents

• Getting started
• Tutorials
  • Debug
  • Abstraction

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You need to install Cmake to build the project, and RenderDoc if you want to follow the debugging exercices.

Linux

You will need a C++ compiler.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

You will also need the OpenGl and SDL2 packages.

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev

Windows

The recommended compiler is MSVC. To install it you will need Visual Studio (which is not VSCode) and select the C++ development package during installation. The MingW compiler will work as well if you prefer to use it.

Build

You can handle the CMakeLists.txt in any way you like, here's some way to use it :

Option 1: CLI

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

If you are on linux, you can then run make and launch the executable with ./build/bin/Debug/opengl-tutorial.

If you are on windows, open the project with visual studio.

Option 2: Visual Studio (Windows only)

Open this folder with the CMake... option in file->open on Visual Studio, and run the project. Be sure to run the CMakeLists.txt project from the drop-down.

Option 3: VSCode

Use the CMakeTools plugin, build with f7 then run with f5 (But be carefull to be on the right platform, there is a launch file for windows and for linux).

Tutorials

Debug

Follow this tutorial.

Abstraction

Follow this tutorial.