libglw is a C++11 wrapper for OpenGL and OpenGL Shader Language. It provides classes for most OpenGL objects and some function wrapped in a C++11 style.

• libglw - OpenGL C++ wrapper
  • Features
    • OpenGL Buffers
    • GLSL Shaders
    • Uniforms GLM compatible
    • Textures
    • Renderbuffers and Framebuffers
  • Dependencies
  • Demo
  • Release notes
  • TODO

libglw provides classes for VBO (gl::ArrayBuffer<Struct>) and EBO (gl::ElementBuffer<Integer>). Those two classes work like vectors : you reserve space (internally allocate more space than size in capacity), you map then unmap it.

struct Vertex
{
    glm::vec2 pos;
    glm::vec4 color;
};
gl::ArrayBuffer<Vertex> buffer;
buffer.reserve(6); // 6 vertices
buffer.reserve_relative(3); // add 3 vertices, these now 9 vertices
Vertex* v = buffer.map();
// change v map
buffer.unmap();
buffer.draw(GL_TRIANGLES);

You can easily attach a VAO (gl::VertexArray) and add attributs (gl::ArrayBuffer<Struct>::Attrib<index>) to the ArrayBuffer.

GLSL Shader loading are splitted in two classes gl::sl::Shader<ShaderType> and gl::sl::Program. Shader uses to load and compile the shader, Program links attached shaders and become the shaders owner to use.

Any errors from compile and link throw exceptions you can catch. TRY_GLSL and CATCH_GLSL are provided to capture gl::sl exceptions and displays errors to error console (std::cerr).

You can use stream operator to aply a shader :

gl::sl::Program prog;
TRY_GLSL
prog << gl::sl::Shader<gl::sl::Vertex>(vert, false) << gl::sl::Shader<gl::sl::Fragment>(frag, false) << gl::sl::link;
CATCH_GLSL
prog.use();

Uniforms are packed into two classes to transmit to gl::sl::Program. You can set referenced value (gl::UniformRef<ValueType>) or static and r-value (gl::UniformStatic<ValueType>).

program << gl::sl::use
        << gl::UniformRef<glm::mat4>("modelmat", modelmat);
        << gl::UniformStatic<float>("opacity", 0.5f);

Texture, Renderbuffer and Framebuffer provide several functionalities following OpenGL ones. You can set format, sampler and size of a texture for example, and attach Texture and Renderbuffer to Framebuffer. Check out GLClass.h for more informations.

libglw needs some libraries to work.

• OpenGL 3.3
• GLEW : OpenGL Extension, for OGL 3.3 compatibility
• GLM - OpenGL Mathematics

A demo is available to test the library. Using SDL2 for Window and events handling, it displays a turning RGB colored triangle.

It all starts one day...

• Add buffers, shader loading, texture, framebuffers and renderbuffers
• Add functional: Clear and Enable.
• Add demo
• Cmake support

• Linux portage (very soon)
• Doxygen documentation
• OpenGL versions compatibilities