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This looks quite nice. But they did fib a bit about no dependencies. It is apparently built on top of GLFW3 which is a nice, small C library that gives you a na

This looks quite nice. But they did fib a bit about no dependencies. It is apparently built on top of GLFW3 which is a nice, small C library that gives you a native window and input handling.

i336_ 10y ago
There's also a pure X11 version, which only pulls in what X requires: $ make gcc main.c -std=c89 -pedantic -O2 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -o bin/zahnrad -lX11 -lm $ ldd bin/zahnrad linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe32df9000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f8468746000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8468441000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f84680a0000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f8467e7d000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8467c79000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8468a88000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f8467a75000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f846786f000)
- digi_owl 10y ago
  Odd seeing that in this day and age. I though everyone was hot and bothered about Wayland...
- generic_user 10y ago
  Cross platform is a key feature. Thats why glfw is so nice. Unless you want to write the grungy windows bits for all your platforms I don't see any problem with useing glfw. Its a solid library.
  - flohofwoe 10y ago
    GLFW is great, but it's limited to GL or Vulkan as 3D backend. There's a context-less mode now (created for Vulkan I think), but I haven't seen GLFW used together with D3D or Metal yet. It's fairly easy to rip the relevant window- and input-handling code out though.
osmala 10y ago
Nope, it isn't. GLFW3 is in example use of library. There is not a single instance of string "glf" in actual library. The library claims that it is agnostic to what actual low level layer you provide to it so you can use it with what ever you choose as render target and what ever you choose as input source. Its user of library's task to provide those two and link to GUI.

This looks quite nice. But they did fib a bit about no dependencies. It is apparently built on top of GLFW3 which is a nice, small C library that gives you a native window and input handling.

i336_ 10y ago

There's also a pure X11 version, which only pulls in what X requires: $ make gcc main.c -std=c89 -pedantic -O2 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -o bin/zahnrad -lX11 -lm $ ldd bin/zahnrad linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe32df9000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f8468746000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f8468441000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f84680a0000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f8467e7d000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f8467c79000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f8468a88000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f8467a75000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f846786f000)

digi_owl 10y ago
Odd seeing that in this day and age. I though everyone was hot and bothered about Wayland...
generic_user 10y ago
Cross platform is a key feature. Thats why glfw is so nice. Unless you want to write the grungy windows bits for all your platforms I don't see any problem with useing glfw. Its a solid library.
- flohofwoe 10y ago
  GLFW is great, but it's limited to GL or Vulkan as 3D backend. There's a context-less mode now (created for Vulkan I think), but I haven't seen GLFW used together with D3D or Metal yet. It's fairly easy to rip the relevant window- and input-handling code out though.

osmala 10y ago

Nope, it isn't. GLFW3 is in example use of library. There is not a single instance of string "glf" in actual library. The library claims that it is agnostic to what actual low level layer you provide to it so you can use it with what ever you choose as render target and what ever you choose as input source. Its user of library's task to provide those two and link to GUI.