OpenGL...Helpers(3pm)

💖 OpenGL...Helpers(3pm) 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a Perl page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection and she's lowkey iconic 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

OpenGL::Modern::Helpers — literally just example usage of raw pointers from perl, that's the whole vibe 💅

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🌸 OpenGL::Modern API Implementation 🌸

so here's the tea ☕ — this module existed to support the use of the OpenGL::Modern package for OpenGL bindings. How? By documenting the deets of the implementation and handing you example routines showing how you actually use it from perl. no gatekeeping, periodt ✨

OpenGL::Modern is an XS module giving you bindings to the C OpenGL library for graphics. As of 0.0403, she now has "_p" bindings for all functions that have pointers which have metadata in the OpenGL XML registry 👑 (the registry lives at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KhronosGroup/OpenGL-Registry/refs/heads/main/xml/gl.xml if you wanna peek, iykyk).

and the glow-up? all of the "helper" versions of routines that used to implement "_p" versions on top of "_c" versions now just import and re-export the native "_p" versions. no extra steps, no drama, just re-export 🦋

bestie, go read the automatically-generated documentation in OpenGL::Modern for the interfaces of all the OpenGL functions that are bound 💜

and when I say all… I mean pretty much all of them, because that list comes straight from GLEW. some of them only have "_c" bindings though, like I mentioned up there 👆 — that's because of incomplete metadata in the registry. but FR FR, since that's largely only true for routines that got removed in 3.2+ "core" profiles, it's unlikely to change. so don't hold your breath, she's staying exactly as she is 💀

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okay that's the whole page, hope it slayed 🌈 mwah 💋

oh and for the record, this was written for perl v5.42.3 and dated 2026-08-19 — thank you for coming to my ted talk, ily, bye 🎀