GLAD Makefile script

A Makefile compilation/installation script for version 2.0 of Dav1dde's GLAD library.

Downloading GLAD

Before you can actually use this, you need to download GLAD. If you are using GLAD for OpenGL, you need to figure out what version of OpenGL your system supports.

This can be done via glxinfo:

$ glxinfo | grep "OpenGL core profile version string"

Then you can choose the download media for GLAD on the official website.

You can also generate GLAD bindings from the GitHub repository.

Usage

To install GLAD using the Makefile, call make from the root directory of your GLAD folder:

# your folder may look like this:
glad
├── Makefile # <-- Makefile should be here
├── include
│   ├── KHR
│   │   └── khrplatform.h
│   └── glad
│       └── glad.h
└── src
    └── glad.c

make

If the build is successful, the archive and includes should be generated in ./build.

Navigate into the ./build directory and call sudo make install:

cd build
sudo make install

To test whether GLAD has installed correctly, search for glad.pc with pkg-config:

pkg-config --cflags --libs glad

To uninstall GLAD from pkgconfig, call sudo make uninstall from within the build directory:

sudo make uninstall

Parameters

Variable	Description	Default
PKG_CONFIG_LIBINFO_DIR	Specifies the output directory of glad.pc	/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
STATIC_ARCHIVE_NAME	Name of the static library.	libglad.a
PREFIX	Location prefix of glad installation.	/usr/local
BUILD_DIR	Path to build directory.	./build

Contributing

This installation script is still in its "it works on my system" phase, so any and all contributions are welcome.

TODOs are written sporadically in Makefile.

TODOs

• Support for all GLAD APIs (only OpenGL is supported)
• Shared library generation/installation.