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From: Yves Bailly <yves.bailly@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: OpenGL in Ada
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On Oct 6, 5:45=A0am, a...@anon.org wrote:
>
> The complete Ada openGL source bindings can be found at:
> =A0 =A0 adaopengl.sourceforge.net
> All you needs is to download and install openGL engine set up for your OS=
.

I've used this binding, unfortunately it's now quite outdated. For
what I can see, it only provides support for OpenGL up to 1.3, however
we're now at 4.1, with shaders and many other shiny things. That's why
I created this program. Subprograms are resolved dynamically at
runtime, if the underlying OpenGL engine doesn't provide a function
(because it's not up-to-date or the hardware itself doesn't provide
it), then the function pointer is simply set to "null".

OpenGL is a moving thing. Since a few years we can see a new
specification every 6 months or so, a hand-made only binding seems too
much work, at least for me.