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CompletedescriptionsofAPIcommandsandshadinglanguagefunctionsareprovidedforthecurrentversionstheseAPIs.

CurrentAPIVersions
OpenGLES3.2andOpenGLESShadingLanguage3.20

OpenGL4.5andOpenGLShadingLanguage4.50

OlderAPIVersions
NotethateachreferencepageintheCurrentVersionspageslinkedaboveincludesversionsupportinformationforolderversions,so(forexample)the
OpenGL3.xreferencepagesarenolongerprovided.TheolderOpenGLES3.xand2.xpageslinkedhereareincreasinglyoutofdate,andmayeventuallybe
removed.

heOpenGL2.1pagesaretheonlysourceofreferencematerialforGLX,GLU,andtheOpenGLCompatibilityProfile.Theymayberetainedforthatreason,
eventhoughtheyareotherwiseuseless,orwemayeventuallyincorporatethatmaterialintheOpenGL4.5pagesinstead.
OpenGLES3.1andOpenGLESShadingLanguage3.10

OpenGLES3.0andOpenGLESShadingLanguage3.00

OpenGLES2.0

OpenGLES1.1

OpenGL2.1(ncludingGLX,GLU,andfixedfunctionGLcompatibilityprofileAPIs)

ReferencePageSources
TheDocbooksourceforthereferencepagesisavailablefromtheOpenGLRefpagesgithubrepository.

APIReferenceCards
QuickReferenceCardsareavailableinseveralformatsforOpenGL3.34.5andOpenGLES2.03.2.

FormalSpecificationsfortheOpenGLandOpenGLESAPIsandShadingLanguagesareavailablefromtheOpenGLRegistry.Thesearetheauthoritative
documentsforhowtheAPIsandShadingLanguagesareintendedtowork.Theyarealsothemostdifficulttoread,beingwrittenprimarilyfordevicedriver
implementers,notdevelopersusingOpenGLES.

Books
OpenGLSuperBibleDefinitiveprogrammer'sguide,tutorial,reference,andexamplecodeforOpenGL4.5.

Libraries,Tools,andTutorials
Khronosusedtohost"SDK"areasforOpenGLandOpenGLES,primarilycomposedoflinkstoexternalprojects,withsomehostedcontentonbehalfofthose
projects.Theseareaswerenotkeptuptodate,andasidefromafewKhronosauthoredprojects,havebeenretired.ProjectsformerlyintheSDKwhicharestill
activearelinkedbelow.

Libraries
EqualizerMiddlewaretocreateanddeployparallelOpenGLbasedapplications.
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EqualizerMiddlewaretocreateanddeployparallelOpenGLbasedapplications.

GLEWTheOpenGLExtensionWranglerLibrary.

GLM(OpenGLMathematics)AC++mathematicslibraryforgraphicsprogramming.

GLUSAmodernOpenGL,OpenGLESandOpenVGUtilitylibrary.

Mesa3DAnopensourceimplementationoftheOpenGLspecification.

OpenSceneGraphAhighperformance3Dgraphicstoolkitwidelyusedinresearchandindustry.

Tools
CodeXLAMDtoolsuiteforGPUdebugging,profiling,andshaderanalysis.

KTXlightweightfileformatforOpenGLtextures,andlibktxlibraryforreadingandwritingKTXfiles.

GLInterceptOpenGLfunctioncallintercept&loggingtool.

GLSLangOpenGLShadingLanguageReferenceCompiler.

GLViewOpenGLExtensionsViewer.

NVIDIANsightVisualStudio(andotherdevelopertools).

Tutorials
OpenGLSamplesPackacollectionofOpenGLsamplecodeusingtheOpenGLcoreprofile.

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