Introduction

gltools is library for quickly creating OpenGL based application in Python/Cython with support for:

• Access to vertex buffers and GLSL shaders
• Access to truetype fonts
• Windows handling through GLFW
• Saving framebuffer content to PNG file.
• Simple GUI controls

OpenGL version 2.1 is targeted which should be available in most computers these days, even in a laptop's integrated graphics.

The license is GPL v2.

Building

• Python 2.7/3.x and Cython 0.17 or later.
• The geotools library.
• GLFW v3.0
• OpenGL headers

For Linux build scripts are available for ArchLinux in the AUR repository. These could be adapted to other Linux distros.

History

• v0.2.1 : Updated to released version of GLFW3
• v0.1.1 : Added missing files and fix building against GLFW3 trunk.

Documentation

See online Sphinx docs