glge is a library providing high-level abstractions for 3D graphics rendering, as well as utilities for tasks common to applications with 3D graphics. It aims to abstract away driver-level details and allow clients to work at a higher level, producing cleaner and more semantic code. This is accomplished by using modern C++ best practices to wrap typically C-like driver APIs.
glge is currently a work in progress. It supports only OpenGL as its driver, and uses GLEW for its extension manager.
Building glge requires CMake version 3.13 or higher, a C++ compiler supporting C++17, glm, Simple OpenGL Image Library (SOIL), and GLEW.
glge is built as a static library. The build also provides a CMake config file to allow easily adding glge to your own CMake project.
CMake options used by glge:
- BUILD_DOCUMENTATION - glge will automatically build Doxygen docs if Doxygen is available and this option is not set.
- BUILD_TESTING - glge will build its unit test suite by default.
- GLGE_HEADLESS_TESTS - Configure glge's OpenGL unit tests to run without an X server (Linux) or window. Requires EGL and a GLEW install compiled with EGL support.
- GLGE_DRIVER - The rendering driver used by glge. Currently only
OPENGLis supported.
CMake should be able to detect the installation of the requisite libraries automatically. Run the install target to install the library, headers, and config file to the desired location.
The path to the requisite libraries must be manually specified. Use
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH to help CMake find the
installation locations of the dependent libraries. Otherwise
identical to a Linux install.
See the online Doxygen reference for information on the provided API.