GLFW-3.4

Introduction to GLFW

The GLFW package provides a library that handles windowing, input, and events. It can be considered like SDL, and mainly helps developers just starting out learning 3D graphical development.

GLFW Dependencies

Required

CMake

Recommended

Optional

Doxygen

Installation of GLFW

Install GLFW by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON      \
      -D GLFW_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF   \
      -D GLFW_BUILD_TESTS=OFF      \
      -W no-dev -G Ninja .. &&
ninja

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libglfw
Installed Directories: /usr/include/GLFW and /usr/lib/cmake/glfw3

Short Descriptions

libglfw

contains functions for handling windowing, input, and events