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.

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GLEW is distributed as source and precompiled binaries. The latest release is 1.5.3 [12-31-09]:

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Binaries Windows 32-bit | 64-bit

An up-to-date copy is also available from the project repository:

svn co https://glew.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/glew/trunk/glew glew

Supported Extensions

The latest release contains support for OpenGL 3.2 and the following extensions:

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[02-28-10] GLEW 1.5.3 fixes minor bugs and adds three new extensions
[12-31-09] GLEW 1.5.2 adds support for OpenGL 3.1, OpenGL 3.2 and new extensions
[11-03-08] GLEW 1.5.1 adds support for OpenGL 3.0 and 31 new extensions
[12-27-07] GLEW 1.5.0 is released under less restrictive licenses
[04-27-07] GLEW 1.4.0 is released
[03-08-07] GLEW is included in the NVIDIA OpenGL SDK
[03-04-07] GLEW 1.3.6 is released
[02-28-07] Repository is migrated to SVN
[02-25-07] GLEW is included in the OpenGL SDK
[11-21-06] GLEW 1.3.5 adds OpenGL 2.1 and NVIDIA G80 extensions
[03-04-06] GLEW 1.3.4 adds support for five new extensions
[05-16-05] GLEW 1.3.3 is released
[03-16-05] GLEW 1.3.2 adds support for GL_APPLE_pixel_buffer
[02-11-05] gljava and sdljava provide a Java binding to OpenGL via GLEW
[02-02-05] GLEW 1.3.1 adds support for GL_EXT_framebuffer_object
[01-04-05] GLEW 1.3.0 adds core OpenGL 2.0 support plus many enhancements
[12-22-04] GLEWpy Python wrapper announced
[12-12-04] Mailing lists created on sourceforge
[12-06-04] GLEW 1.2.5 adds new extensions and support for FreeBSD

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