Dav1dde/glad

Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.

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This project helps C/C++ and Rust developers integrate real-time 2D/3D graphics and computing into their applications. It takes official graphics API specifications (like OpenGL or Vulkan) and generates the necessary loader code, allowing developers to use graphics functions in their preferred language. Game developers, CAD software engineers, and scientific visualization programmers would use this.

4,471 stars and 23 monthly downloads. Actively maintained with 1 commit in the last 30 days. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you are a developer building an application that needs to render graphics using OpenGL, Vulkan, or similar APIs and require a robust way to load the correct function pointers.

Not ideal if you are looking for a high-level game engine or a graphics library that abstracts away the underlying graphics APIs.

game-development graphics-programming real-time-rendering scientific-visualization CAD-software-development
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C

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Category

code-generation

Last pushed

Jan 31, 2026

Monthly downloads

23

Commits (30d)

1

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