GLOW

GL Object-oriented Windowing toolkit

A Cross-Platform Modern OpenGL Toolkit that Abstracts Native Windowing and System Calls

Dependencies

• Epoxy
• FreeType

Install (Windows)

• Download and install Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Recommended Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop
• Download and install Git (Windows)
• Download and install CMake (Windows win64-x64 Installer)
• Clone and build Epoxy
  • Right-click on the Desktop, select 'Git GUI Here'
    • Select 'Clone Existing Repository' from the Git GUI
    • Type 'https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy.git' for Source Location
    • Click 'Browse' for the Target Directory and select the location to download Epoxy into
      • Add '/libepoxy' to the end of the path for the Target Directory
    • Click 'Clone'
    • Close Git GUI
  • Open the 'libepoxy' folder just created in Windows Explorer
    • Right-click, select 'New' -> 'Folder', name it 'build'
    • Right-click, select 'New' -> 'Folder', name it 'install'
  • Open 'CMake (cmake-gui)' application
    • Click 'Browse Source...' and select the 'libepoxy' folder
    • Click 'Browse Build...' and select the 'libepoxy/build' folder
    • Click 'Configure', click 'Finish' in popup window
    • Edit CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to be the full path for the 'libepoxy/install' folder
    • Uncheck 'EPOXY_SUPPORT_EGL'
    • Click 'Configure'
    • Click 'Generate'
    • Close CMake
  • Open the 'libepoxy/build' folder in Windows Explorer and double-click 'Epoxy.sln'
  • Project will open in Microsoft Visual Studio
    • In the Solution Explorer, right-click 'ALL_BUILD' and select 'Build'
    • In the Solution Explorer, right-click 'INSTALL' and select 'Build'
    • Close Microsoft Visual Studio
• Download and install FreeType (Complete package, except sources)

Install (Mac OS X)

• Download and install Homebrew (Type command in 'Terminal' app)
• Open Terminal, then execute the following:
  • brew install libepoxy
  • brew install freetype