GLAD(1)

👑 GLAD(1) — User Commands ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for GLAD, living in section 1 of the manual (User Commands) 🎀 like, the manual name is literally just GLAD, one word, no notes, iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

glad — generator of API for graphics programming 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

usage: glad [-h] [--profile {core,compatibility}] --out-path OUT [--api
            API]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the vibe is this: glad takes the official Khronos-XML specs and generates a GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader that is made for your needs 🫶 not somebody else's needs, not a random loader off the internet, yours. Main character energy fr fr.

And the languages it currently supports are: C, D, Nim, Pascal and Volt. ate. 💅

Also, here's the rest of the usage line, which the original page just kinda leaves hanging out there, so I'm giving it its own little spotlight 🌈:

--generator {c,c-debug,d,nim,pascal,volt} [--extensions
EXTENSIONS] [--spec {gl,egl,glx,wgl}] [--no-loader]
[--omit-khrplatform] [--local-files] [--quiet]

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips. exit stage left 🚪✨
• --profile {core,compatibility} — the OpenGL profile you want. lowkey defaults to compatibility if you don't say anything 👀
• --out-path OUT — the output path for your loader. that's where the file goes, bestie 📁
• --api API — API type/version pairs, like "gl=3.2,gles=". and listen — if you don't give a version, it just means latest, so it'll grab the newest one 🍓
• --generator {c,c-debug,d,nim,pascal,volt} — the language you want the binding generated for 🌈 pick your fighter
• --extensions EXTENSIONS — either a path to an extensions file, or a comma separated list of extensions. and if you leave it out entirely? all extensions get included — yes, all of them, go off 💀
• --spec {gl,egl,glx,wgl} — the name of the spec, that's it, that's the whole thing 🎀
• --no-loader — (no description on this one in the original, it just exists and expects you to respect it 🙈)
• --omit-khrplatform — omits the inclusion of the khrplatform.h file, which is often unnecessary. heads up though: this only has an effect if you use it together with c generators ⚠️
• --local-files — forces every single file directly into the output directory. no src subdirectories, no include subdirectories, none of that, everything just lands in one spot. also: this only has an effect if you use it together with c generators ⚠️
• --quiet — (again, no description in the original, it's giving mysterious and silent 🤫)

ngl the manpage itself is a little shy on a couple of these options, so I'm not gonna make stuff up about them — what you see is what you get, periodt 💯

and that's the whole page!! 🌟 this version of the manual page is dated September 2018 — yes, 2018, she's vintage and she's still serving 💜 anyway love u, go generate some loaders, bye bestie!! 🎀🦋💖