Over time I have tried nearly all of the OpenGL bindings for CSharp but I will always find something that will ever so slightly irritate me. As a result I had a look at the Khronos XML OpenGL spec and this project is the result of a couple of days of work.
Using a function from https://github.com/luca-piccioni/OpenGL.Net and some code from https://github.com/senzible/senzible-opengl , I parse the XML spec (using classes generated from XML2Sharp) and then go through the binding generation, with the result being split into 7 files:
Contains all the OpenGL enums/constants, defined as static & readonly fields (to allow me to use using static Constants to reference them directly from CSharp as I would I C/C++).
Internal definition of the OpenGL function signatures
Strongly typed enums, to provide an alternative way of calling the OpenGL functions.
All the features listed in the OpenGL spec, defined as booleans. Only the GL version ones will get set during load (for now).
Main class that will take care of loading all the supported OpenGL functions and filling the extensions hash. The Init function works in several steps to:
- Determine the supported features.
- Load the functions for the supported features.
- Optionally disable anything that the spec says was removed (default = disabled).
- Optionally determine the supported extensions (default = enabled).
- Optionally load the functions added by the supported extensions (default = enabled).
- Optionally load any leftover functions that were in the spec (default = disabled).
Internal static variables that hold the loaded opengl functions.
- Functions pointing to the internal opengl functions.
- Functions that allow using arrays instead of pointers (unsafe array pining for the time being).
- Functions using the enums as an alternative calling method.
The generated bindings have been tested using .NET Core 2.0 and compile with no errors.
- Constant declaration code was copied from https://github.com/luca-piccioni/OpenGL.Net
- StringBuilder wrapper and type mapping was copied from https://github.com/senzible/senzible-opengl
- XML parsing is based on classes generated using http://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/
