Can you create OpenGL context without opening a window?

Question

Occassionally I hit places where I\'d want to get an OpenGL framebuffer object, but where I\'m not interested about opening a window of any kind.

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Answer 1

http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Creating_an_OpenGL_Context

According to this Web page, WGL_ARB_create_context can be used to create a context without a window. I have not actually tried it myself. I used freeGLUT to create the context and then rendered off-screen to a framebuffer+renderbuffer. I exit the program without ever calling glutMainLoop. It is klugy, but it works for my purposes.