GLSandbox

Environment for developing OpenGL applications with pre-installed libraries and a set of demos.

Included libraries

assimp - A library to import and export various 3d model formats
glad - GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL loader
glfw - Multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan
glm - Header only C++ mathematics library
imgui - Bloat-free graphical user interface library for C++
stb_image - Image loading/decoding library

Usage instructions

Clone the project (with submodules) to your computer and navigate to it

git clone --recurse-submodules --jobs 8 https://github.com/VladimirV99/GLSandbox.git
cd GLSandbox

Generate project files for your platform

Windows (VS2019)

Generate project files for Visual Studio 2019

cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019"

Linux (Makefile)

Generate Makefiles for the project and libraries

cmake .

Adding libraries from scratch

Make a directory for the libraries and navigate to it.

mkdir libs
cd libs

Add glad to the libs directory by extracting the generated C/C++ OpenGL Core profile files from https://glad.dav1d.de/. In this project, OpenGL version 4.2 is used. Next, add other libraries as submodules using git

git submodule add https://github.com/glfw/glfw.git
git submodule add https://github.com/g-truc/glm.git
git submodule add https://github.com/ocornut/imgui.git
git submodule add https://github.com/nothings/stb.git
git submodule add https://github.com/assimp/assimp.git

Finally copy the CMakeLists.txt file and all cmake files from this projects libs directory to your own. To use the libraries just include the libs CMakeLists file in your project CMake configuration.

Updating libraries

glad is updated by going to https://glad.dav1d.de/ and generating files for a newer version. All submodule based libraries are updated by pulling the changes from git

cd libs/library_name
git checkout master
git pull
cd ../..

After updating, the changes should be commited to the repository

License

GLSandbox is not licenced. You are free to do anything you want with the code, no restrictions or limitations.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to the project either by submitting issues or making pull requests.

Thank you for the help 😊