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copied!<p>First of all you have to understand the difference between the windowing library and the opengl context. In short, here is an overall summary.</p> <p>OpenGL can be split in 2 parts:</p> <ul> <li>The client</li> <li>The driver</li> </ul> <p>The client library is just a bunch of headers that you have to install. The driver is shipped with your graphic card.</p> <p>The only thing that you can do is to manipulate an OpenGL context, that is, a set of buffers (frame buffers: color, depth, stencil, accumulation...) and states.</p> <p>The context itself has no notion of "window" or "key". All it does is take some inputs, let it go through its pipeline, and save the output in frame buffers.</p> <p>Next, there is the windowing system ( native ones: Win32, Cocoa, ..., or libraries built on top of it: Qt, GLFW, SDL, SFML, ... ) that provides windows, user input, drawings, etc... It is the windowing library that knows how to read OpenGL buffers and display them on screen.</p> <p>So basically, all you have to do is to choose a windowing library, set up an OpenGL context, feed it with some inputs, and ask the window library to display the content on a canvas-like widget.</p> <p>Give some more informations on what you're trying to do if you want more information.</p> <p>Sides notes:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_pipeline.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_pipeline.html</a> for a description of the OpenGL rendering pipeline</li> <li><a href="http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/man/</a> for the OpenGL 2 reference manual</li> <li>Look at these simple windowing libraries: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.libsdl.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.libsdl.org/</a> : SDL</li> <li><a href="http://www.sfml-dev.org/index.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.sfml-dev.org/index.php</a> : SFML</li> <li><a href="http://glfw.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://glfw.sourceforge.net/</a> : GLFW</li> <li><a href="http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/</a> : GLUT</li> </ul></li> </ul>

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