Glitter – Dead-simple boilerplate for OpenGL (opens in new tab)

FYI one of the lesser known features of cmake is that it can invoke your build tool as well:

    cmake ..
    cmake --build .

This smartly invokes make/ninja/msbuild or whatever directly from the command line; very useful on windows machines or to have 'universal' cmake runners for CI that touches multiple platforms.

(Also, tutorials; `cmake .. && cmake --build .` should smartly determine the correct compiler for the system and build it; you don't need the -G "FOO" stuff unless you're specifically doing something fancy)

To help improve my OpenGL/graphics knowledge, I've started going through GPU Gems ( https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/10/10/http.developer.nvidia.... ) and building my own examples of the concepts in each chapter. I was very happy to find Glitter recently, as it made the obnoxious hurdle of setting up all the dependencies unnecessary.

Also, setting up Glitter was what led me to finally "getting" what CMake was for and how it fit into a development pipeline.

This might be easier on the eyes for people as well: http://polytonic.github.io/Glitter/

Looks a bit prettier than the default GitHub repository page anyway.

Neat, thanks for your work!

Newbie interested in OpenGL here, I followed the instructions but get a segfault, any idea? I pasted my session at http://pastebin.com/hxXauQSQ

Super cool! How does this compare to the (now mostly defunct) GLUT?