The OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library (GLEW) is a cross-platform open-source C/C++ extension loading library. GLEW provides efficient run-time mechanisms for determining which OpenGL extensions are supported on the target platform. OpenGL core and extension functionality is exposed in a single header file. GLEW has been tested on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Irix, and Solaris.

Downloads

GLEW is distributed as source and precompiled binaries.
The latest release is 2.3.0[10-10-23]:

Source ZIP |  TGZ Binaries Windows 32-bit and 64-bit

An up-to-date copy is also available using git:

• github
  git clone https://github.com/nigels-com/glew.git glew
   

Supported Extensions

The latest release contains support for OpenGL 4.6, compatibility and forward-compatible contexts and the following extensions:

• OpenGL extensions
• WGL extensions
• GLX extensions
• EGL extensions