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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: OpenGL in Ada
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:26:06 -0700 (PDT)
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Warren wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> There is the SDL project:http://www.libsdl.org/libraries.php
> available for portable game writing. =A0Something like that in
> Ada form would be very useful. This is a big project, to be
> sure, but Ada tasking and games seem like a natural fit
> to me. I'd be interested in developing some games with this
> kind of framework.

There exists an Ada binding: http://sourceforge.net/projects/adasdl/

Several years ago I started rewroting Defendguin in Ada with this
binding, see

http://green.ada-france.org:8081/branch/changes/org.ludovic-brenta.defendgu=
in

IIUC, it is possible to do OpenGL from within, or in conjunction with,
SDL, as most OpenGL games I know of also use SDL. I never tried.

--
Ludovic Brenta.