Dav1dde/glad

Features

• Graphics API Loaders - Generates source code to resolve hardware-accelerated function pointers for graphics APIs based on official specifications.
• Schema-Driven Code Generators - Parses official XML or JSON specification files to produce type-safe source code for graphics APIs.
• Extension Loaders - Automatically creates loaders that handle OpenGL versions and specific hardware extensions.
• GPU Extension Management - Manages specific graphics API extensions and versions to utilize latest hardware features in a portable way.
• Driver Interface Discovery - Ensures applications can communicate with GPUs by dynamically discovering available API functions at runtime.
• Cross-Language Bindings Layers - Generates boilerplate code across multiple programming languages to interface with low-level graphics specifications.
• Language Generators - Employs a modular system of language-specific generators to translate API specifications into target language syntaxes.
• Hardware Capability Mapping - Maps optional API extensions to specific function pointers based on the detected hardware capabilities at runtime.
• Multi-Language Client Generation - Automates the generation of loading libraries across various programming languages from a common specification.
• Header-Only Libraries - Produces minimal source files as single-file headers to simplify project integration without binary libraries.
• Plugin Systems - Provides a community-driven plugin system to extend the generator's support for additional programming languages.
• Cross-Platform Graphics Tooling - Provides consistent graphics API communication across different operating systems and hardware drivers.

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