D for game Development

Chris Pons cmpons at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 10:32:08 PST 2012


On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 15:41:02 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 06:51:11 UTC, RedShift wrote:
>> Can I use OpenGL or DirectX with D? If so, where can I find a 
>> guide to get everything setup?
>
> Derelict provides bindings for OpenGL and SDL (and many other 
> game-related libraries) - these are used exactly the same way 
> they are used in C/C++, so any
> OpenGL/SDL tutorials for C/C++ apply.
>
> Derelict has a few of its own functions that can/need to be 
> called when initializing, described in its documentation.
>
> The current stable version of Derelict supports only OpenGL up 
> to 2.1 and SDL 1.2, but support for OpenGL 3.0+ and SDL2 is 
> being worked on.
>
> For the current development version, see
>
> https://github.com/aldacron/Derelict3
>
> (Derelict moved to GitHub recently)

Ok, So let me get this straight. I can use Derelict with OpenGL 
3. ish, and support for 4.0 is on the way.

I can also use any tutorials to learn Opengl?

That is really good news.




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