Re: [Plib-users] Glut or SDL

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Dave McClurg wrote:
> 
> I'm about to launch into a large project (commercial game) using OpenGL and PLIB
> 
> For window support, I need to choose between GLUT and SDL
> (http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/).
> Which would you choose and why?
> 
> The big ports by lokigames are done with SDL.
> glTron/Andreas recently switched over to SDL.
> Any reason you can see to not follow the elephant tracks?
> Any advice or technical pro/con in this area?
> 
> i don't think licensing is an issue because SDL is LGPL and
> GLUT is "freely distributable" (same as public domain?).

freeGLUT is truly OpenSource - if that matters to you.  It seems
to work perfectly with every PLIB program I've tried it with.

I don't know much about SDL though - I choose GLUT simply because it's
installed pretty much everywhere OpenGL is - so that's one less
dependancy.

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