OpenGL Setup

This project uses OpenGL, GLFW, and GLEW for graphics rendering. Availability of a C++ compiler is obvious.

Installation on linux based systems

Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential cmake
sudo apt install mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
sudo apt install libglfw3-dev libglew-dev

Arch/Manjaro:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S base-devel cmake
sudo pacman -S mesa glfw-x11 glew

Note: If using Wayland instead of X11, use glfw-wayland instead of glfw-x11.

Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

sudo dnf install @development-tools cmake
sudo dnf install mesa-libGL-devel glfw-devel glew-devel

Installation on Windows

Installation via wsl is recommended.

wsl --install

Installation on macOS

brew update
brew install cmake glfw glew

To compile

g++ {fileName}.cpp -o sym -lGL -lglfw -lGLEW

To run

./sym