Our C# Winforms OpenTK based application is unable to run on a Windows 7 32bit client machine because it relies on OpenGL 1.5 features. It appears that due to the. Without drivers, you will default to a software version of OpenGL 1.1 (on Win98, ME, and 2000), a Direct3D wrapper that supports OpenGL 1.1 (WinXP), or a Direct3D wrapper that supports OpenGL 1.1 (Windows Vista and Windows 7). None of these options are particularly fast, so installing drivers is always a good idea.
I'm running Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010. The version of OpenGL included (#include ) is version 1.1, and I'd like to be working with a reasonably current version -- some sort of version 3 or 4. What do I need to do in order to get to that state? The OpenGL SDK page at seems to say that you're not allowed to download the SDK, and the OpenGL wiki at says that you're expected to already have it, and if you don't have it, it points you to sites where you can download graphics-card manufacturers' DLLs.
But surely I don't need to build a different version of the game I'm working on for each graphics card I'm going to be working with. StackOverflow also doesn't seem to have anything, at least not phrased in a way that I can follow.
I just want a download link to an installer that I can run, which will leave me with a reasonably up-to-date OpenGL API. Where do I go to get it? Update: OpenGL appears to have an ideosyncratic idiom of some sort which doesn't involve having an SDK -- i.e., a package of.DLL,.lib, and headers. I'm using DirectX, which does.
(In fact, the DirectX SDK even includes documentation!). ' you're not allowed to download the SDK' That's because it's not an SDK. They call it an 'SDK' because they wanted to sucker people into thinking that OpenGL had a real, officially supported SDK. It's just a (poorly updated) grab-bag of libraries that the website maintainer sticks links onto. The Getting started page on the wiki explains exactly how this works. If you want OpenGL applications to work on someone else's system, then they will also need to have installed recent drivers.
But that's true of any graphics application. – Jul 30 '13 at 21:04 •. An 'SDK' is just a fancy name for a 'library'. ' Where do I get opengl32.lib?'
The Getting Started page was very clear on that: 'Visual Studio, and most Windows compilers, come with this library.' It was the sentence after the one that told you to link to it. And the part titled 'Getting Functions' explains about the header situation. Please read the pages you've linked to; don't just scan them for certain terms or search for 'download this'. Crack Pdf Complete Special Edition.
Actually go through and understand what it's saying. – Jul 30 '13 at 21:12 •. First of all OpenGL is not some centrally managed library and implementation (opposed to DirectX), that's why you can't download the SDK, because that's not how OpenGL works. OpenGL itself is just a bunch of documents that describe an API that drivers provide and programs can use. However, the actual implementation of the API lives in the context of an operating system. And that makes things a little bit difficult if you want your API to be independent of an OS.