OpenGL using SDL --> Should I or shouldn't I?

hi!

now to ask a simple qeustion: i saw that the SDL library supports openGL, too.
now my question is, wheter it is worth using or wheter i should just use the 'real' openGL.

- does it cause performance loss?
- is it _AS FLEXIBLE AS_ the 'real' openGL?
- i guess it is a lot easier, isnt it?

thanks for upcoming replies :)

No, yes, and no. You misunderstand what SDL's OpenGL support is.

SDL gives you the means of setting up a window with an OpenGL rendering context in a cross-platform and rather easy way. It does not do anything beyond that. All the OpenGL stuff is done in the "real" OpenGL, in the "real" OpenGL way.

ah so it does set up the window. i could have thougt of that :D
so i guess SDL openGL is useful for

- a simple 3d engine
- a complex and __FAST__ 3d engine
- a commercial 3d engine

is it?

It's useful whenever you prefer to wrestle with the SDL instead of platform-specific APIs (GLX, WGL and AGL) for setting up an OpenGL context. This includes pretty much every situation except an embedded OpenGL subwindow in a normal application.

ok thats totaly what i dont nead!
i will then use this with hapiness :)
thank you!:)

anyway, are there any useful tutorials?

that one is 300 lines long http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php
all i neeed is the initializion with a simple triangle. but instead i found a struct of classes and hierachic functions :/

>> are there any useful tutorials?
For OGL or SDL?

I know NeHe has a tutorial about setting up a gl context in a window.

i know nehe@gamedev, but what i needa know is how to set it up in SDL..

NeHe has SDL base code. Scroll down a little.

The OpenGL tutorial at nehe has, among the code sample variants, one using SDL.

ah thats what i didnt see.
thanks guys:)!

umh... even more code...
i've been looking for something about 50 lines. i think thats pretty much possible isnt it?

ok found something
*never mind