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GLFW VS GDI

Compare GLFW VS GDI and see what are their differences

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GLFW logo GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...

GDI logo GDI

GDI++.dll is a replacement for the Windows default font rasterizer, which gives you a better...
  • GLFW Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-22
  • GDI Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-05-19

GLFW videos

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Computer Graphics with Modern OpenGL and C++ : [THEORY] Introduction to GLEW, GLFW and SDL

More videos:

  • Tutorial - OpenGL Tutorial 17 - GLFW Text/Character Input

GDI videos

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what is a GDI engine?

More videos:

  • Review - DO NOT buy a GDI engine or direct injection?
  • Review - GDI Engines and Carbon Deposits | Know Your Parts

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GLFW and GDI)

GLFW

GDI

Game Engine
73 73%
Game Engine
27% 27
Game Development
72 72%
Game Development
28% 28
3D Game Engine
72 72%
3D Game Engine
28% 28
2D Game Engine
50 50%
2D Game Engine
50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, GLFW seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GLFW mentions (1)

  • Need help getting started with GLFW on Linux and VS Code
    I'm on Arch linux, so I runned sudo pacman -S glfw-x11 to get GLFW. I started vscode and copied the boiler plate code from glfw.org and then I tried to run it but I got a bunch of linking/definition (?) errors. Source: about 3 years ago

GDI mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of GDI yet. Tracking of GDI recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GLFW and GDI, you can also consider the following products

Vulkan - Vulkan is a new generation graphics and compute API that provides high-efficiency, cross-platform access to modern GPUs used in a wide variety of devices from PCs and consoles to mobile phones and embedded platforms.

OpenGL - OpenGL is the premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics...

raylib - Cross-platform, open-source game development library in C.

WebGL - WebGL is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser.

SFML - SFML provides a simple interface to the various components of your PC, to ease the development of games and multimedia applications. It is composed of five modules: system, window, graphics, audio and network.

Microsoft DirectX - Describes how to obtain the latest version of DirectX to enable games and multimedia applications on your system.

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