Libraries for the game

[Marckvdv]

Libraries

For our game we want to use portable libraries, so the game can run on Windows, Linux and OSX. I propose we use the following libraries for the game:

• Window handling: GLFW
• Input handling: GLFW
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.x (GLEW)
• Physics: Bullet

When more libraries are nessecary I will add them to this list.

[Sleaker]

Some libraries to consider using: GLM, GLAD, GLEW.

[Voxtric]

A physics engine is going to be necessary at some point, so perhaps Bullet should be considered?

[ErisianArchitect]

We also need scripting libraries. Lua, Python, or both.

[Barnold1953]

Definitely need GLEW and probably Bullet, but we don't need GLM. I will provide an in-house math library based off of GLM that doesn't have the alignment requirement.

[ghost]

I personally would prefer GLFW for window & input handling.

@Barnold1953 What alignment requirement do you mean?

[Barnold1953]

The newer GLM versions require that all data types be aligned on 16 bytes. Which causes lots of headache if you try to use one of the data types in a class, and you can't pass vectors by value, only by reference.

[KdotJPG]

BOOST for threading, serialization, tree structures, etc.

Also RakNet for networking.

[Sleaker]

@KdotJPG - We decided against boost. For the other libraries (Network, Audio, etc) I think we can revisit those topics later when we have a basic renderer and are wanting to start integrating those features.

[brianbruggeman]

+1 GLFW +1 Python, +1 Lua -1 Boost -1 RakNet, +1 Enet

I think Ben might have a better solution for GLM that he's probably already uploaded.

[tehcyx]

+SDL2 over GLFW just because I know it a little more.

[lolzballs]

+GLFW over SDL2

GLFW is more "OpenGL centred", and SDL2 has a lot of extra features (bloat, if you will), which we probably don't need.