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    <p>I am working on a game engine and it has evolved greatly. Because the engine needs to work on mac also, I am still using OpenGL 3.2 and GLSL 1.2 :-(. I use GLEW which I assumed would solve extension issues for me.</p> <p>EDIT: Meanwhile, part of the question is answered - read on at the next EDIT:</p> <p>I was always able to make shaders work on both windows and mac, sometimes I would have to add a line in the GLSL code like <strong>#extension GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 : enable</strong> to make it work on Mac. It then seems that my Windows version will give a warning when compiling the same shader, but it will work.</p> <p>But ever since I started using geometry shaders, my nightmare has begun. For some reason, mac expects me to use <strong>#extension GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 : enable</strong> while windows expects me to use <strong>#extension GL_EXT_geometry_shader4 : enable</strong>. This makes it less obvious to create a platform independent shader.</p> <p>Also, and this is even more annoying: Windows version wants me to use: <strong>glTransformFeedbackVaryings</strong> and I would think that GLEW would make it available to the mac but there I explicitly need to use <strong>glTransformFeedbackVaryingsEXT</strong> which will not work on the windows version. So I need to #ifdef for <strong>APPLE</strong> to use what's needed. Same problem with <strong>glBeginTransformFeedback</strong> and <strong>glBeginTransformFeedbackEXT</strong>.</p> <p>But both accept <strong>glProgramParameteriEXT</strong>, there I don't need the distiction...</p> <p>I understand that it's only with the transform feedback that I am having the problem, but... what is this all about?</p> <p>I thought I understood how OpenGL extensions worked, but I am starting to lose that understanding.</p> <p>It's getting to a point where I think that when I run the code on another windows system or another mac system or another linux system, I will have new problems because there are different graphics adapters or something.</p> <p>Can anyone help me understand this? I have read the OpenGL manual about extensions, so I am missing something obvious. How can I make sure that my code will always work?</p> <p>EDIT: By removing GLEW entirely from the Mac version and fully using the Mac's own OpenGL 3.2 implementation, all the namings are normal and I can entirely remove the <strong>#extension GL_EXT_gpu_shader4 : enable</strong> from my shaders. The only thing that makes me worry now is that for geometry shaders, I need the function <strong>glProgramParameteri</strong> which doesn't seem to exist, but <strong>glProgramParameteriEXT</strong> does. For some reason, this function also works on Windows. Why? Can I be certain that it will work on all systems/hardware?</p>
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    1. COApple usually is a bit behind, so you might just want to check the officialy supported version. [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15101939/glsl-vertex-shader-crashes-computer) was posted just before your question.
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    2. COHm, I don't think that post helps me. I am developing on OSX Lion 10.7.5 and it's an AMD graphics adapter. But if I understand you correctly, the problems are related to Apple's bad implementation? How do all those games on steam get ported and work?
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    3. COWhy aren't you using the core OpenGL 3.2 available on MacOSX.
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