Question

I am making a simple game (using the book “iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies), but I cannot get it to work. I am making the sample application that is used in the book, so I think I have the correct code. Here is the problem.

I put in the code for OpenGL ES, but I am getting a lot of warnings. Here is the code.

.h file:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <OpenGLES/ES2/gl.h>
#import <OpenGLES/ES2/glext.h>
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
#import <CoreGraphics/CoreGraphics.h>

@interface OpenGL : UIView {
EAGLContext *context;
GLuint *framebuffer;
GLuint *colorRenderBuffer;
GLuint *depthBuffer;
}

- (void) prepareOpenGL;
- (void) render;

@end

.m file:

#import "OpenGL.h"


@implementation OpenGL

- (void) awakeFromNib; {
    [self prepareOpenGL];
    [self render];
}

- (void) prepareOpenGL; {
    context = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];
    [EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];

    glGenFramebuffers(1, &framebuffer);
    glBindFramebuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, framebuffer);
    glGenRenderbuffers(1, &colorRenderBuffer);
    glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, colorRenderBuffer);
[context renderbufferStorage:GL_RENDERBUFFER fromDrawable:(CAEAGLLayer*)self.layer];
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0, GL_RENDERBUFFER, colorRenderBuffer);

GLint height, width;
glGetRenderbufferParameteriv(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_RENDERBUFFER_WIDTH, &width);
glGetRenderbufferParameteriv(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_RENDERBUFFER_HEIGHT, &height);

glGenRenderbuffers(1, &depthBuffer);
glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthBuffer);
glRenderbufferStorage(GL_RENDERBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT16, width, height);
glFramebufferRenderbuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, GL_DEPTH_ATTACHMENT, GL_RENDERBUFFER, depthBuffer);

GLenum status = glCheckFramebufferStatus(GL_FRAMEBUFFER);
if (status != GL_FRAMEBUFFER_COMPLETE) {
    NSLog(@"Failed to create a complete render buffer!");
}
}

- (void) render; {
glBindFramebuffer(GL_FRAMEBUFFER, framebuffer);
glViewport(0, 0, self.bounds.size.width, self.bounds.size.height);
glClearColor(0.5, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);

glBindRenderbuffer(GL_RENDERBUFFER, colorRenderBuffer);
[context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER];
}

+ (Class) layerClass; {
    return [CAEAGLLayer class];
}

These are the types of warnings I am getting (I cannot put them all in because there are a lot of them):

Passing argument 2 of 'glGenFramebuffers' from incompatible pointer type.
Passing argument 2 of 'glBindFramebuffers' from incompatible pointer type.
Passing argument 2 of 'glGenRenderbuffers' from incompatible pointer type.
Passing argument 2 of 'glBindRenderbuffers' from incompatible pointer type.

So, if all of this came out of the book, why am I getting these warnings? Am I not importing the right files? I really cannot give you much more information than this because I have no idea about what caused this, and I am totally new to OpenGL ES. Thanks for any and all help!

EDIT: One more thing. I get the warnings wherever things like glGenFramebuffers are used.

Answer 1

The glGen* functions take a size and a pointer to a GLuint, and you’re passing the address of a pointer to a GLuint (a GLuint **), which is what triggers the warning.

Just pass the pointer directly, like this:

glGenFramebuffers(1, framebuffer);
glGenRenderbuffers(1, colorRenderBuffer);
glGenRenderbuffers(1, depthBuffer);

Also don’t forget to allocate memory before passing it to OpenGL.