Documentation suggestion (OpenGL with dynamically loaded library)

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Hi,

I’m new to SDL, OpenGL and MingGW, and I’m trying to write some
portable OpenGL code. My development machine is Gentoo Linux, and I
setup MinGW as a cross-compiler.

Earlier today my code had a bug - the Windows version crashed (during
the return from the function that uses OpenGL) with a segmentation
fault when I try using “simple” OpenGL functions. The Linux version of
my code worked perfectly.

I spent around 10 hours trying different packages, different version
of SDL, installing MinGW on Windows to see if that was different,
trying test/example code, debugging, etc. Nothing I did helped, other
peoples code had the same bug, hair loss was at record levels…

In the documentation for SDL_GL_GetProcAddress(), can someone add some
notes about using “APIENTRY”?

It’d help - I promise… :slight_smile:

Cheers,

Brendan

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Brendan Trotter escreveu:

In the documentation for SDL_GL_GetProcAddress(), can someone add some
notes about using “APIENTRY”?

Even better, add a note about using GLEW instead. No need to get your
hands dirty with GetProcAddress. :P—
Daniel K. O.

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Daniel K. O. wrote:

Brendan Trotter escreveu:

In the documentation for SDL_GL_GetProcAddress(), can someone add some
notes about using “APIENTRY”?

Even better, add a note about using GLEW instead. No need to get your
hands dirty with GetProcAddress. :stuck_out_tongue:

Daniel K. O.

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