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<h2>Name</h2>

<p>glCreateShader — Creates a shader object</p>

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<code class="funcdef">GLuint <strong class="fsfunc">glCreateShader</strong>(</code>

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<td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">shaderType</var><code>)</code>;</td>

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<h2>Parameters</h2>

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<code>shaderType</code>

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<p>Specifies the type of shader to be created.

Must be one of <code class="constant">GL_COMPUTE_SHADER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_VERTEX_SHADER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_TESS_CONTROL_SHADER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_TESS_EVALUATION_SHADER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER</code>,

or <code class="constant">GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</code>.</p>

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<h2>Description</h2>

<p><code class="function">glCreateShader</code> creates an empty

shader object and returns a non-zero value by which it can be

referenced. A shader object is used to maintain the source code

strings that define a shader. <em class="parameter"><code>shaderType</code></em>

indicates the type of shader to be created. Five types of shader

are supported. A shader of type

<code class="constant">GL_COMPUTE_SHADER</code> is a shader that is

intended to run on the programmable compute processor. A shader of type

<code class="constant">GL_VERTEX_SHADER</code> is a shader that is

intended to run on the programmable vertex processor.

A shader of type <code class="constant">GL_TESS_CONTROL_SHADER</code> is a shader that

is intended to run on the programmable tessellation processor in the control stage.

A shader of type <code class="constant">GL_TESS_EVALUATION_SHADER</code> is a shader that

is intended to run on the programmable tessellation processor in the evaluation stage.

A shader of type

<code class="constant">GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER</code> is a shader that is intended to

run on the programmable geometry processor. A shader of

type <code class="constant">GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</code> is a shader that is

intended to run on the programmable fragment processor.</p>

<p>When created, a shader object's

<code class="constant">GL_SHADER_TYPE</code> parameter is set to either

<code class="constant">GL_COMPUTE_SHADER</code>, <code class="constant">GL_VERTEX_SHADER</code>, <code class="constant">GL_TESS_CONTROL_SHADER</code>,

<code class="constant">GL_TESS_EVALUATION_SHADER</code>, <code class="constant">GL_GEOMETRY_SHADER</code>

or <code class="constant">GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER</code>, depending on the value

of <em class="parameter"><code>shaderType</code></em>.</p>

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<h2>Notes</h2>

<p>Like buffer and texture objects, the name space for

shader objects may be shared across a set of contexts, as long

as the server sides of the contexts share the same address

space. If the name space is shared across contexts, any attached

objects and the data associated with those attached objects are

shared as well.</p>

<p>Applications are responsible for providing the

synchronization across API calls when objects are accessed from

different execution threads.</p>

<p><code class="constant">GL_COMPUTE_SHADER</code> is available only if the GL version is 4.3 or higher.</p>

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<h2>Errors</h2>

<p>This function returns 0 if an error occurs creating the

shader object.</p>

<p><code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if

<em class="parameter"><code>shaderType</code></em> is not an accepted value.</p>

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<h2>Associated Gets</h2>

<p><a class="citerefentry" href="glGetShader"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGetShader</span></span></a>

with a valid shader object and the parameter to be queried</p>

<p><a class="citerefentry" href="glGetShaderInfoLog"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGetShaderInfoLog</span></span></a>

with a valid shader object</p>

<p><a class="citerefentry" href="glGetShaderSource"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glGetShaderSource</span></span></a>

with a valid shader object</p>

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<a class="citerefentry" href="glIsShader">

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<span class="refentrytitle">glIsShader</span>

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<div class="refsect1" id="seealso">

<h2>See Also</h2>

<p><a class="citerefentry" href="glAttachShader"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glAttachShader</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glCompileShader"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glCompileShader</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDeleteShader"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDeleteShader</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glDetachShader"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glDetachShader</span></span></a>,

<a class="citerefentry" href="glShaderSource"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glShaderSource</span></span></a>

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<h2>Copyright</h2>

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Copyright © 2003-2005 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd.

Copyright © 2010-2014 Khronos Group.

This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in

the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.

<a class="link" href="https://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">https://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.

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