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<p></p>
<div class="textheader">What?</div>
<p>FreeGLUT is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable.</p>
<p>GLUT (and hence FreeGLUT) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.</p>
<p>FreeGLUT is a free-software/open-source alternative to the OpenGL Utility
Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support
the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has
been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple,
widely available and highly portable.</p>
<p>GLUT (and hence FreeGLUT) takes care of all the system-specific chores
required for creating windows, initializing OpenGL contexts, and handling input
events, to allow for trully portable OpenGL programs.</p>
<p>FreeGLUT is released under the X-Consortium license.</p>
<div class="textheader">Why?</div>
<p>The original GLUT library seems to have been abandoned with the most recent version (3.7) dating back to August 1998. Its license does not allow anyone to distribute modified library code. This would be OK, if not for the fact that GLUT is getting old and really needs improvement. Also, GLUT's license is incompatible with some software distributions (e.g., XFree86).</p>
<p>The original GLUT library seems to have been abandoned with the most recent
version (3.7) dating back to August 1998. Its license does not allow anyone to
distribute modified library code. Which is really unfortunate, since GLUT is
getting old and really needs improvement. Also, GLUT's license is incompatible
with some software distributions (e.g., XFree86).</p>
<div class="textheader">Who?</div>
<p>FreeGLUT was originally written by Pawel W. Olszta with contributions from Andreas Umbach and Steve Baker. Steve is now the official owner/maintainer of FreeGLUT.</p>
<p>FreeGLUT was originally written by Pawel W. Olszta with contributions from
Andreas Umbach and Steve Baker.</p>
<p>John F. Fay, John Tsiombikas, and Diederick C. Niehorster are the current
maintainers of the FreeGLUT project.</p>
<div class="textheader">When?</div>
<p>Pawel started FreeGLUT development on December 1st, 1999. The project is now virtually a 100% replacement for the original GLUT with only a few departures (such as the abandonment of SGI-specific features such as the Dials&amp;Buttons box and Dynamic Video Resolution) and a shrinking set of bugs.</p>
<p>There are some additional features such as a larger set of predefined shapes for use in applications.</p>
<p>Pawel started FreeGLUT development on December 1st, 1999. The project is now
virtually a 100% replacement for the original GLUT with only a few departures
(such as the abandonment of SGI-specific features such as the Dials&amp;Buttons
box and Dynamic Video Resolution) and a shrinking set of bugs.</p>
<p>FreeGLUT adds some additional features over the basic GLUT functionality,
such as a larger set of predefined objects to use, the ability to run single
iterations of the event loop, or exit from it gracefully, mousewheel input
callbacks, optional OpenGL core/compatibility profile context creation,
multitouch/multi-pointer input, and support for a larger and growing set of
platforms, being just some of them.</p>
<div class="textheader"><a name="download"></a>Help out!</div>
<p>FreeGLUT 3.0 is in active development, and will feature ports to
Android and BlackBerry 10 as well as a host of other enhancements. We are looking
for developers to help out with further work on the Android and BlackBerry 10
ports. Furthermore, ports to Cocoa/Carbon on OSX, and maybe even Wayland
are planned, along with some enhancements to the API and implementation.
<p>We are looking for developers to help out with further work on the Android
and BlackBerry 10 ports. Furthermore, ports to Cocoa on OSX, and maybe even
Wayland are planned, along with some enhancements to the API and implementation.</p>
See <a href="progress.php">here</a> for an overview of the major points
on our todo list. You can easily help out by forking the unofficial clone
of our <a
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<div class="textheader">Testing Releases</div>
<p>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-3.0.0-rc2.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2</a> [<i>Released: 26 Dec 2014</i>]<br/>
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<p>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-3.0.0-rc1.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 3.0.0 Release Candidate 1</a> [<i>Released: 29 Oct 2014</i>]<br/>
</p>
<p>Amongst many smaller enhancements and bugfixes, this RC includes
experimental ports to Android and BlackBerry 10 as well as other API
and implementation enhancements (e.g., move to CMake build system,
VBO and shader support for geometry). Also moved to CMake as build
system. Please try it out and give us feedback on how it worked for
you.
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svn</a>, and give us feedback on how it worked for you. All this
will eventually become a FreeGLUT 3.0 release.</p>
<p>There are no presently active testing releases.
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<div class="textheader">Stable Releases</div>
<p>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-3.0.0.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 3.0.0</a> [<i>Released: 7 March 2015</i>]<br/>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-2.8.1.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 2.8.1</a> [<i>Released: 5 April 2013</i>]<br/>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-2.8.0.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 2.8.0</a> [<i>Released: 2 January 2012</i>]<br/>
<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freeglut/freeglut-2.6.0.tar.gz?download">Freeglut 2.6.0</a> [<i>Released: 27 November 2009</i>]<br/>
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<div class="textheader">Prepackaged Releases</div>
<p>The FreeGLUT project does not support packaged versions of FreeGLUT excepting, of course, the tarballs distributed here. However, various members of the community have put time and effort into providing source or binary rollups, and we thank them for their efforts. Here's a list which is likely incomplete:</p>
<p>The FreeGLUT project does not support packaged versions of FreeGLUT
excepting, of course, the tarballs distributed here. However, various members of
the community have put time and effort into providing source or binary rollups,
and we thank them for their efforts. Here's a list which is likely
incomplete:</p>
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