Question

GLUT is a very old framework for OpenGL, and there seems to be a lot of negative attitude towards it. I hear SDL is an alternative, though to my understanding it does not handle the 3d component of OpenGL. What is a good option (which preferably has good documentation so it is easily learnable) that can do what GLUT does and provide more functionality, eg. to make a complete 3d game? I prefer not to use pre-made game engines, I’d much rather build my own code from scratch.

Answer 1

orginal GLUT is very old and I would not recommend it. But the new version of it: http://freeglut.sourceforge.net/ is quite interesting framework. Is is as simple as GLUT but adds more features: mouse scroll, new geometry objects, etc, etc.

last version of this library is from January 2012

here is a useful link with several frameworks for opengl: http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/windowtoolkits/

If you want to make w “whole” project I suggest combining more libraries:

• http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Related_toolkits_and_APIs#Context.2FWindow_Toolkits
• http://glsdk.sourceforge.net/docs/html/index.html
• SOIL for texture loading