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GLFW VS Microsoft DirectX

Compare GLFW VS Microsoft DirectX 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...

Microsoft DirectX logo Microsoft DirectX

Describes how to obtain the latest version of DirectX to enable games and multimedia applications on your system.
  • GLFW Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-22
  • Microsoft DirectX Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-12

GLFW videos

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

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

Microsoft DirectX videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GLFW and Microsoft DirectX)

GLFW

Microsoft DirectX

Game Engine
59 59%
Game Engine
41% 41
Game Development
59 59%
Game Development
41% 41
3D Game Engine
62 62%
3D Game Engine
38% 38
2D Game Engine
100 100%
2D Game Engine
0% 0

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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

Microsoft DirectX mentions (0)

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GLFW and Microsoft DirectX, 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.

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

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

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.

SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level...

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

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