SDL_HINT_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL(3)

✨ SDL_HINT_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to the SDL3 FUNCTIONS corner of the man pages 💅 this one is all about SDL_HINT_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL — yes it's a mouthful, no you don't have to say it out loud.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

SDL_HINT_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL — a variable that controls whether the OpenGL context gets created with EGL. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <SDL3/SDL_hints.h>

#define SDL_HINT_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL "SDL_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL"

like, that's the whole incantation. include the header, and the hint name is literally the string "SDL_VIDEO_FORCE_EGL" ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the variable can be set to these values, and bestie there are exactly two of them:

• "0" — use the platform-specific GL context creation API (GLX, WGL, CGL, etc). this is the default, it's giving "we'll do the normal thing, don't worry about it" 😌
• "1" — use EGL. periodt. no platform API, just EGL 🔥

⚠️ okay this part matters: this hint should be set before SDL is initialized. set it late and it's giving "too late bestie" 😭

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⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

this hint has been available since SDL 3.2.0 🦋 so if you're on anything older... yeah no, not for you 🙈

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and that's the page!! slay 💖 written up in the Simple Directmedia Layer docs, from SDL 3.4.18 — go forth and force your EGL, you main character 👑🌈