Initializing OpenGL without libraries

Question

Every tutorial I find Online uses SDL or GLAD or other libraries to initialize OpenGL. Is there a way of initializing OpenGL with no extra libraries (like DirectX)?

The reason for that, Is that I am building a Game Engine and I want to minimize the external libraries as possible and to be able to handle more error messages.

Answer 1

Initializing OpenGL differs from one operating system to another, that's why people made these libraries to ease other developers work.

Some tutorials that will help you.

For Windows (WGL)

• https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Creating_an_OpenGL_Context
• http://www.rastertek.com/gl40tut03.html

For Linux (GLX)

• https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Tutorial:_OpenGL_3.0_Context_Creation_(GLX)