What is the relationship between EGL and OpenGL?

Question

I\'m writing an implementation for OpenVG and OpenGL|ES in Go, both of which depend on the Khronos EGL API, supposedly to ease portability I guess.

I\'m writing an

Answer 1

There is no relationship between OpenGL and EGL. EGL generally does not run on desktops, and there is no ability to create a desktop OpenGL context through EGL.

OpenGL contexts are instead created and managed by platform-specific APIs. On Windows, the WGL API is used. On X11-based platforms, GLX is used. And so forth.

There was some noise last year from Khronos about creating a version of EGL that could work on the desktop and make OpenGL contexts, but thus far, nothing came of it.