GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GLFW 3.4 Brings Better Support For Wayland & Run-Time Platform Selection

GLFW 3.4 has been released as this open-source, multi-platform library used for OpenGL / OpenGL ES / Vulkan development via a platform-independent API. GLFW 3.4 continues supporting Linux, macOS, Windows, and other platforms for offering this nice abstracted solution around graphics and input...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GLFW-3.4-Released

[hf_139]

Still not good enough to be actually used native on wayland and doesn't run minecraft without an additional patch.

But it's on the right track and if someone doesn't mind worse performance and one or the other glitch, he can experiment with it.

[Nille]

And no Audio Support .... What makes this now better than SDL?

[schmidtbag]

For a moment I thought this was about bringing Wayland support to GFWL where I'm like "wow talk about the greatest waste of time of the year" haha

[gufide]

And no Audio Support .... What makes this now better than SDL?

Audio is not the point of that library. GLFW it's not a multimedia library. It's strictly a windowing library for the purpose of using hardware accelerated rendering and input processing. That's it. There's a plethora of good audio library out there, including OpenAL, the new steam audio runtime or even soundio are all good candidates for audio.

It's the simplicity and narrow scope of GLFW that are its selling points.

SDL has batteries included even for rendering, but in reality, very few game dev and game engines use those.

[rene]

updated: https://cleanlinux.com/packages/glfw