openGL is library for graphics, so we will need widow library to put the openGL "context" inside, I choose GLFW because it is tailored for openGL, but openGL is dynamically linked at runtime - and I need to find all the function, so I took GLAD to make it simpler to work with.

• openGL
• GLFW
• GLAD
• stbImage
• GLM (OpenGL Mathematics)

GLFW is windowing library, it means that it open new window that can hold openGL context

lglfw3 -lGL -lX11 -lpthread -lXrandr -lXi -ldl

GLAD is like a compatibility layer: it takes all the openGL dynamic linked functions and generate h file for them.

1. go to this website, make sure c++, openGL 3.3+, core and generate loader are checked.
2. download the zip file.
3. add the content (src, include) to the project.

library for loading images - implemented in single h file.

mathematics library of openGL.

graph TD
    texture --> object
    shader --> object
    mesh --> object
    object --> scene
    camera --> scene
    %% light --> scene

openGL wiki

openGL tutorial