A cross-platform C++ OpenGL sample application.
Based on Jason L. McKesson's OpenGL tutorial series.

This project uses the CMake build system. Linux with GCC and Windows with MSVC are supported, but other systems and compilers might work.

• CMake >= 3.0
• A C++ compiler that supports C++14 (tested with GCC 6 and MSVC 14 aka VS 2015)
• Python >= 2.7
• Git

The app uses GLFW, glm and glad. You have the choice to either install development libraries for them, or let the CMake script download and build them.

The CMake script will first try to find them on your system. If they cannot be found, the script will build them from source.

Linux users: Building GLFW from source requires X.Org development files. On Ubuntu, these correspond to the xorg-dev package group.

In addition to the usual CMake variables (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, etc.), there are OGLTUTOR_ variables that you can set to tweak build options.

The OGLTUTOR_SYSTEM_ options allow you to toggle between using system-provided dependencies or building them from source.

OGLTUTOR_STATIC allows building the application statically, provided that the dependencies are supplied as static libraries. A quick way to make sure this is the case is to let the script build every dependency instead of using system-provided ones.

On Windows, it will result in a completely static executable. On Linux, the executable will still be dynamically linked to Glibc and Xorg libraries, but with static libstdc++/libgcc, making it (hopefully) portable.

When launching the ogl-app executable, the shaders folder has to be in your working directory.