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Microsoft DirectX VS GLFW

Compare Microsoft DirectX VS GLFW and see what are their differences

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Microsoft DirectX logo Microsoft DirectX

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

GLFW logo GLFW

GLFW is an Open Source, multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan development on the...
  • Microsoft DirectX Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-12
  • GLFW Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-22

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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

Category Popularity

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

Microsoft DirectX

GLFW

Game Engine
41 41%
Game Engine
59% 59
Game Development
41 41%
Game Development
59% 59
3D Game Engine
40 40%
3D Game Engine
60% 60
Tool
100 100%
Tool
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.

Microsoft DirectX mentions (0)

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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.

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...

CrossBrowdy - Open-source JavaScript framework to create cross-platform and hybrid game engines, games, emulators, multimedia libraries and apps

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