OpenGL Distilled

8.5. More Information

Appendix C, "OpenGL and Window Systems," of OpenGL^® Programming Guide provides further discussion of not just AGL, GLX, and WGL, but also PGL (for the IBM OS/2 Warp platform).

OpenGL Programming for the X Window System (Kilgard 1996) is the definitive reference for both GLUT and GLX. OpenGL Programming for Windows 95 and Windows NT (Fosner 1996) is the definitive reference for WGL. Note that both GLX and WGL have evolved via the extension mechanism since these books were published. The current GLX specification, OpenGL Graphics with the X Window System, is available for free download from the OpenGL Web site at http://www.opengl.org. See the OpenGL Extension Registry Web site at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/registry/ for current WGL extension specifications.

See the Platform example program, available from this book's Web site, for a simple demonstration of using platform-specific interfaces.