Initializing OpenGL without GLUT

Question

every introduction and sample that I can find seems to use GLUT or some other framework to \"initialize\" OpenGL. Is there a way of initializing OpenGL with just what is av

Answer 1

What you're doing is initializing a window with an OpenGL context. This requires some calls to the operating system. It is not possible to initialize OpenGL with just gl.h and glu.h. GLUT (or SDL, SMFL, etc) does that work for you in a nice platform independent way. You can do the initialization with native calls as well.