Features

Some of the features of GLFW as of version 2.6 are:

• Very easy to use API (similar to the OpenGL API)
• No system specific code necessary
• Open an OpenGL window with one call
• Good fullscreen support
• Keyboard, mouse and joystick input
• Unicode keyboard character input
• High-precision timer input
• Multi threading support
• Support for fullscreen antialiasing
• Texture loading support (from memory buffers and Targa image files)
• Near 100% compatibility between supported platforms
• It's Open Source with a liberal license
• Support for most popular C/C++ compilers
• Support for Delphi, Visual Basic, MASM32, Lua and D
• Comprehensive documentation, with a User's Guide, Reference Manual, tutorials and examples
• Can link either statically or dynamically with your application
• It's still small

Supported compilers

• Apple Developer Tools (Mac OS X)
• Borland C++ Builder (Windows)
• Cygwin (Windows)
• DJGPP (DOS)
• GCC (Unix)
• Geek Gadgets (GCC/AmigaOS)
• LCC-Win32 (Windows)
• Microsoft Visual C++ (Windows)
• MinGW32 (Windows)
• OpenWatcom (Windows)
• Pelles C (Windows)
• VBCC (AmigaOS)

Other compilers may well work, but have not been tested.