1. What Are GLUT, GLFW, and FreeGLUT?

What are these programs and how do they relate to OpenGL?
They are obviously not needed for OpenGL programming, so
what advantage do they confer upon their users?

Thanks!!!

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2. Re: What Are GLUT, GLFW, and FreeGLUT?

cklester wrote:
> 
> What are these programs and how do they relate to OpenGL?
> They are obviously not needed for OpenGL programming, so
> what advantage do they confer upon their users?
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 

They are toolkits to make programming OpenGL easier.  But there are some
limitations as to what can be accomplished with them.
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=63796

Check out the forums on OpenGL.org, too.

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