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Beef OpenGL Header Generator

A Generator for OpenGL headers for the Beef Programming language, Version 1.6.0

Features:

• Automatic Grouping of enum values into actual enums with the options to auto-convert from uints.
• Core and compatibility profiles support
• All OpenGL versions supported
• Support for enabling non-required enums as needed
• Listing of all available OpenGL extensions
• Generating functions and enums from selected extensions

Compiling:

Windows:

In cmd, run: gradlew.bat jar

Unix and Unix-like:

In your shell, run: ./gradlew jar

In both cases, the jar will be in build/libs/

Running:

For a list of available options, run java -jar Beef-OpenGL-Header-Generator-{version}.jar --help Options are Unix-style with the support of chaining multiple short options together

Using the Header:

Initializing:

Using is as easy as simply first creating an openGL context and then calling OpenGL.Init() with a function resolving function pointers from System.StringView, e.g.

with SDL

static void* SdlGetProcAddress(StringView string) {
    return SDL.SDL_GL_GetProcAddress(string.ToScopeCStr!());
}

SDL.GL_CreateContext(window);
GL.Init(=> SdlGetProcAddress);

with glfw-beef

Glfw.MakeContextCurrent(window);
OpenGL.Init(=> Glfw.GetProcAddress);

Things to note

• If an enum value is not contained in an enum and does not show up in autocompletion you can cast all ungrouped enum values with your typical (.) stunt. If you like to auto convert those ungrouped values, specify -a or --auto-conversion when running the generator
• If you've included Extensions in your header generation you can use if(OpenGl.EXTENSION) {...} to check whether the extension is supported for the device running your program. If you don't need this feature you can turn it off by specifying -n or --no-extension-check when running the generator
• The bindings likely do NOT work with x32 as GLints, GLuints and the like are directly translated to (u)int32 for the reason that Beef does not really work on x32 atm. This may change in the future