WGL (software)

WGL or Wiggle is the windowing system interface to the Microsoft Windows implementation of the OpenGL specification. WGL is analogous to GLX, which is the X11 interface to OpenGL as well as CGL, which is the Mac OS X interface to OpenGL.

See also

• GLX: the equivalent X11 interface to OpenGL
• CGL: the equivalent Mac OS X interface to OpenGL
• OpenGL
• GLUT: A higher level interface that hides the differences between WGL, GLX, etc.
• EGL (OpenGL): a similar cross-platform interface between OpenGL ES or VG and the underlying native platform window system

External links

• WGL functions
• tutorial
• technical resources about Windows OpenGL implementation on OpenGL website