PiGLEt - Golang EGL bindings for the Rasperry Pi native OpenGL driver

The PiGLEt Go module provides bindings to the native OpenGLES and EGL libraries available for Raspberry Pi.

Specifically, PiGLEt provides functions to create an OpenGL context using the native Broadcom drivers libbcm_host.so and libbrcmEGL.so in /opt/vc/lib/. It also provides Go function wrappers for the libbrcmGLESv2.so OpenGLES2 library. These libraries make it possible to run OpenGL programs from the command line without requiring the X Window System. OpenGLES programs drawing within a PiGLEt context will be rendered in fullscreen to the display attached to the HDMI port of the Raspberry Pi.

Requirements

PiGLEt runs on

• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B

PiGLEt does not run on

• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

as the native OpenGL driver is not available for this platform :(

General Usage

// +build linux,arm

import (
    "github.com/FEEDFACE-COM/piglet"
    gl "github.com/FEEDFACE-COM/piglet/gles2"
)

func main() {
    piglet.CreateContext()
    width,height := piglet.GetDisplaySize()
    piglet.MakeCurrent()
    gl.InitWithProcAddrFunc( piglet.GetProcAddress )

    gl.Viewport(0, 0, width, height)
    gl.ClearColor(0., 0., 0., 0.)
    gl.Clear( gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | gl.DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT )
    piglet.SwapBuffers()
    
    piglet.DestroyContext()
}

See the examples/hello-piglet.go code for a more thorough example.

Author

PiGLEt is designed and implemented by [email protected]. The GLES2 bindings are generated using glow https://github.com/go-gl/glow.