GLFW for VSCode — OpenGL Quick-Start Template

A clean and ready-to-use template for starting OpenGL development with GLFW in Visual Studio Code. The project includes a fully pre-configured tasks.json, basic rendering examples, and core OpenGL structures such as VAO, VBO, and EBO — all set up so you can start coding immediately.

🚀 Features 🔳 Basic GLFW Window

Initialization of GLFW

Window creation

Rendering loop

Basic input handling

🎨 Shader Pipeline

Example Vertex and Fragment shaders

Shader compilation & linking

📦 VBO / VAO / EBO

VBO: Uploading vertex data to GPU

VAO: Storing vertex attribute configurations

EBO: Indexed rendering for shared vertices

📐 GLM Integration

Easy vector & matrix math

Model / View / Projection examples

🖼️ stb_image.h

Demonstration of loading textures or using other single-header utilities

🔧 Setup and Usage 1️⃣ Prerequisites

You'll need:

Visual Studio Code

C++ compiler (GCC/G++, Clang, or MSVC)

GLFW, OpenGL, and optionally GLM (or already included in your setup)

2️⃣ Clone the Repository git clone cd

3️⃣ VSCode Configuration

This template already includes:

.vscode/tasks.json — build command setup (compiling and linking OpenGL, GLFW, GLM, stb, etc.)

⚠️ Important: Make sure include paths and library paths in tasks.json match your system.

4️⃣ Build & Run

Open the folder in VSCode

Press Ctrl + Shift + B (starts build using tasks.json)

After building, run the executable:

.\cutable.exe

This will open your GLFW window.

🤝 Contributing

Have ideas, improvements, or fixes? Feel free to open an Issue or create a Pull Request!