Creating an OpenGL 3.3 context on OSX Mavericks

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Hello. So, my goal is to create an OpenGL 3.3 context on MacOSX Mavericks with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M card which, according to “https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/” should be possible.

Code:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 3 );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 3 );

window = SDL_CreateWindow("Werner3D",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL|SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN|SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);

glcontext = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);
if (glcontext == 0) {
    std::cout << "Error while creating OpenGL context: " << SDL_GetError() << endl;
    abort();
}
std::cout << "OpenGL version" << glGetString(GL_VERSION) << endl;

Output: Error while creating OpenGL context: OpenGL > 3.2 is not supported on this platform

Ok, maybe the table is wrong, I try this code instead:

Code:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 3 );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 2 );

window = SDL_CreateWindow("Werner3D",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL|SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN|SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);

glcontext = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);
if (glcontext == 0) {
    std::cout << "Error while creating OpenGL context: " << SDL_GetError() << endl;
    abort();
}
std::cout << "OpenGL version" << glGetString(GL_VERSION) << endl;

Output: OpenGL version3.3 NVIDIA-8.18.27 310.40.05f01

3.3? It just told me that was not available! Could this be a bug of some kind?

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Related (with a patch for SDL included): https://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2197On Dec 26, 2013, at 9:44 AM, werner wrote:

Hello. So, my goal is to create an OpenGL 3.3 context on MacOSX Mavericks with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M card which, according to “https://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/” should be possible.

Code:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 3 );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 3 );

window = SDL_CreateWindow("Werner3D",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL|SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN|SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);

glcontext = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);
if (glcontext == 0) {
    std::cout << "Error while creating OpenGL context: " << SDL_GetError() << endl;
    abort();
}
std::cout << "OpenGL version" << glGetString(GL_VERSION) << endl;

Output: Error while creating OpenGL context: OpenGL > 3.2 is not supported on this platform

Ok, maybe the table is wrong, I try this code instead:

Code:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 3 );
SDL_GL_SetAttribute( SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 2 );

window = SDL_CreateWindow("Werner3D",SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,WINDOW_WIDTH,WINDOW_HEIGHT,SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL|SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN|SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);

glcontext = SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);
if (glcontext == 0) {
    std::cout << "Error while creating OpenGL context: " << SDL_GetError() << endl;
    abort();
}
std::cout << "OpenGL version" << glGetString(GL_VERSION) << endl;

Output: OpenGL version3.3 NVIDIA-8.18.27 310.40.05f01

3.3? It just told me that was not available! Could this be a bug of some kind?

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