[he-man]

Hi. I've been searching bindings for opengl and SDL and I saw two different projects.

Looking at the documentation I saw that derelict just supports opengl 1.1 but the opengl bindings are up to 2.0. But this project seems to be more active. Which ones should I use? I'm specially interested in using opengl and sdl and its libraries. A piece of advice, please.

Thanks for your time.

[aldacron]

When you say "OpenGL bindings", I assume you mean the bindings that are part of the Bindings project. The short answer: your question can only be answered by you. Either set of bindings (Derelict or otherwise) will allow you to access OpenGL and SDL just fine. Which one you select really depends upon the specifics of your project requirements. The long answer follows.

DerelictGL will, in the not too distant future, include definitions for and access to OpenGL 2.0 and extensions. As you pointed out, it currently only supports 1.1. This means that if your project relies on a version of OpenGL greater than 1.1, DerelictGL might not be a good option for you at all.

On the otherhand, the Derelict bindings handle loading of the bound libraries dynamically at runtime, whereas other bindings require you to link to an import library. On Windows, the only possible OpenGL import library that can be linked to is 1.1, anyway. Functionality beyond that must be loaded manually through WGL. On other platforms, linking to a specific version of the library will require users to have that at least that version installed when the application is launched (this part is true also for SDL).

You need to examine your project requirements and go from there. Either approach is just as suitable as the other. I can tell you until I'm blue in the face that I think Derelict's dynamic loading is a much more flexible option, and if you need advanced OpenGL features that it doesn't take much work to implement your own OpenGL extension modules for exactly what you need and then to load the required bits yourself. But ultimately, any advice anyone gives you hinges on what your project requires. Only you can decide that.

[JoeCoder]

I just add this file in derelict's opengl directory, add the line

[Crispy]

I'm biased, but I'd go with Derelict any time. It works well, and Windows OpenGL is only up to version 1.1 anyway.

Actually, for me the best thing about Derelict is that it makes it really easy to dynamically link to LGPL libraries (like SDL and its various sister libraries - SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, and so on). That means I can use SDL stuff without getting my own code LGPLed.

[aldacron]

[Crispy]

Right. I was misunderstanding what the Bindings project is.