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From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>
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Subject: Re: is getting OpenGL to work with Ada a lost cause?
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:33:50 -0500
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On 8/15/2014 8:28 AM, jsquirek@gmail.com wrote:
> My suggestion is to stick with tutorials that use SDL as this tends
>to be the most professionally used, regularly updated, and widely
>supported cross-platform library (in fact Valve officially uses it
>for all of its linux development work).
>

Yes, it is a good idea to use SDL. But one still needs to call
openGL from SDL to do any any 3D graphics and any advanced graphics
really. SDL provides basic framework (windows, sounds, threads...)

So if one is using Ada, one still needs a binding for calling openGL
from inside SDL (also Ada SDL binding is needed ofcourse).

--Nasser