Glut is a window system independent toolkit for writing opengl programs. it implements a simple windowing api, which makes learning about and exploring opengl programming very easy.

glut is designed for constructing small to medium sized opengl programs, however it is not a full-featured toolkit, so large applications requiring sophisticated user interfaces are better off using native window system toolkits like gtk+ or motif.

this package contains libraries, and headers suitable for software development with glut.