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    <p>This is somewhat a duplicate of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/576896/can-you-create-opengl-context-without-opening-a-window">this question</a>.</p> <p>I am trying to make a windowless console application to check up on OpenGL version supported. In order to do this I need to set up a render context - but without creating a window. I am trying to use desktop handle, which I won't write to.</p> <p>I forgot to set pixel format in previous example - that is probable reason why creation of render context failed - however even with pixel format set, I cannot activate it. wglMakeCurrent(hDC, hRC) just returns 0.</p> <p>Here is the complete source code dump:</p> <pre><code> #include &lt;iostream&gt; #include &lt;GL/GLee.h&gt; #include &lt;windows.h&gt; HDC hDC = NULL; HGLRC hRC = NULL; HWND hWnd = NULL; HINSTANCE hInstance; int res = 0; int pf = 0; PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR pfd = { sizeof(PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR), 1, /* version */ PFD_DRAW_TO_WINDOW | PFD_SUPPORT_OPENGL | PFD_DOUBLEBUFFER, PFD_TYPE_RGBA, 24, /* 24-bit color depth */ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, /* color bits */ 0, /* alpha buffer */ 0, /* shift bit */ 0, /* accumulation buffer */ 0, 0, 0, 0, /* accum bits */ 32, /* z-buffer */ 0, /* stencil buffer */ 0, /* auxiliary buffer */ PFD_MAIN_PLANE, /* main layer */ 0, /* reserved */ 0, 0, 0 /* layer masks */ }; std::string trash; int main(int argc, char**argv) { hInstance = GetModuleHandle(NULL); // Grab An Instance For Our Window hWnd = GetDesktopWindow(); // Instead of CreateWindowEx if (!(hDC = GetDC(hWnd))) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "Device context failed" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::cout &lt;&lt; std::endl &lt;&lt; "Press ENTER to exit" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::getline(std::cin, trash); return 1; } // pixel format pf = ChoosePixelFormat(hDC, &amp;pfd); res = SetPixelFormat(hDC, pf, &amp;pfd); if (!(hRC = wglCreateContext(hDC))) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "Render context failed" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::cout &lt;&lt; std::endl &lt;&lt; "Press ENTER to exit" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::getline(std::cin, trash); return 1; } if(!wglMakeCurrent(hDC,hRC)) { // fail: wglMakeCurrent returns 0 std::cout &lt;&lt; "Activating render context failed" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::cout &lt;&lt; std::endl &lt;&lt; "Press ENTER to exit" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::getline(std::cin, trash); return 1; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 1.2 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_1_2) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 1.3 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_1_3) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 1.4 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_1_4) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 1.5 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_1_5) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 2.0 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_2_0) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 2.1 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_2_1) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; "OpenGL 3.0 support ... "; if (GLEE_VERSION_3_0) { std::cout &lt;&lt; "OK" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } else { std::cout &lt;&lt; "FAIL" &lt;&lt; std::endl; } std::cout &lt;&lt; std::endl &lt;&lt; "Press ENTER to exit" &lt;&lt; std::endl; std::getline(std::cin, trash); // cleanup wglMakeCurrent(NULL, NULL); /* make our context not current */ wglDeleteContext(hRC); /* delete the rendering context */ ReleaseDC(hWnd, hDC); /* release handle to DC */ return 0; </code></pre> <p>}</p> <hr> <p><strong>edit:</strong> I know that wglMakeCurrent() fails if either of the handles passed to it is invalid or if the rendering context that is to become current is presently current for another thread, but I am not really sure which of these is true in this case.</p>
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    1. COhow does your wglCreateContext call fail? Does it return 0? does it crash? something else? I added a comment in your code with this question as well.
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    2. COWhat's wrong with temporarily making a tiny window and then cleaning it up once you get your information?
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    3. COyes, it fails with 0 - however, I forgot to set pixel format, now Activating render context fails with 0.. I'll update the question and code - may be my stupidity kicking in today after all.
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