CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.MitLicenseForever 1.0.252.16

CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL

A fully managed, cross-platform OpenGL bindings library for .NET 10. CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL exposes the OpenGL Core-profile API to managed code through function-pointer P/Invoke dispatch, with the native-library resolution and the vector / matrix / scalar maths types that the OpenGL signatures need.

CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL is provided as a .NET 10 library and associated CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.MitLicenseForever NuGet package.

CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL supports applications and assemblies that target Microsoft .NET version 10.0 and later. Microsoft .NET version 10.0 is a Long-Term Supported (LTS) version of .NET, and was released on Nov 11, 2025; and will be actively supported by Microsoft until Nov 14, 2028. Please update your C#/.NET code and projects to the latest LTS version of Microsoft .NET.

Installation

dotnet add package CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.MitLicenseForever

Note that the NuGet package ID and the namespace are different - there is no package named plain CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL:

• NuGet package ID: CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.MitLicenseForever
• Assembly and primary namespace: CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL - i.e. using CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL;

XML documentation (IntelliSense) ships alongside the assembly.

The package pulls in the following automatically; no version pinning is needed in the consuming project:

• Microsoft.DotNet.PlatformAbstractions
• Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyModel

Both are used by the native-library resolver; the package has no other dependencies, and it does not bring a source generator into your build.

CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL supports:

• The full OpenGL Core-profile binding surface
• Function-pointer-based P/Invoke dispatch (delegate* unmanaged[Stdcall|Cdecl]<...>) for zero-allocation native calls
• Runtime calling-convention selection (Stdcall on Windows, Cdecl elsewhere)
• Cross-platform native-library resolution, so the same code loads opengl32, libGL or the platform equivalent
• Generic vector / matrix / scalar maths types used throughout the OpenGL signatures
• .NET 10-native System.Half support
• No build-time code generation: the P/Invoke method bodies ship as ordinary committed C# source, so nothing is generated while your project builds

Sample Code

Create a GL instance against an IGLContext

using CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL;
using CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.Core.Contexts;

IGLContext context = /* obtained from GLFW / SDL / your windowing layer */;
GL gl = GL.GetApi(context);
gl.ClearColor(0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f, 1.0f);
gl.Clear(ClearBufferMask.ColorBufferBit);

GL.GetApi also accepts an IGLContextSource, an INativeContext, or a plain Func<string, nint> address loader, so it fits whatever windowing layer supplies the context.

Documentation

The NuGet package includes AGENT-README.txt, a complete API reference and usage guide written for AI coding agents - point your agent at that file when it is writing code against this library.

Additional sample code and usage examples are available in the CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.Tests project: https://github.com/ellisnet/CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL/tree/main/tests/CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL.Tests

License

CodeBrix.Platform.OpenGL is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file.

For licensing and provenance information about the open source code included in this package, see THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt.