ANGLE allows Windows users to seamlessly run OpenGL ES content by efficiently translating OpenGL ES API into DirectX 11 API calls. This repository contains a version of ANGLE focused on helping you build great Windows apps.

ANGLE fully supports these C++ app types:

• Universal Windows apps (Windows 10)
• Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps
• Windows desktop applications

ANGLE supports different versions of OpenGL ES depending on the capabilities of the underlying hardware. In particular, the supported version depends on which D3D Feature Levels the hardware supports:

For detailed information about ANGLE, please visit our wiki (found here). Our wiki contains lots of useful information about ANGLE, including:

• Guides to help you get started with ANGLE in Windows apps
• Tips and tricks to get good performance out of ANGLE
• Sample code and documentation
• And more!

For a broad overview of ANGLE and how it works, please take a look at //BUILD/ 2015 presentation.

Windows 10 Development:

• Visual Studio 2015 Community RC or higher
• Windows 10 for local Windows development

Windows 8.1 and/or Windows Phone 8.1 Development:

• Visual Studio Community 2013 (Update 4), or higher/later.
• Windows 8.1 for local Windows development.

1. Clone or download ANGLE from our GitHub repository
2. Install our easy-to-use Visual Studio templates by running install.bat in the /templates/ directory of your copy of ANGLE, or follow these manual steps.
3. Open the appropriate ANGLE Visual Studio solution for your project, and build all flavors of it
4. In Visual Studio go "File -> New -> Project", create a new ANGLE application, and hit F5 to run it!

The Windows 10 Visual Studio solution for ANGLE is located here:

• /winrt/10/windows/src/angle.sln

The Windows 8.1 Visual Studio solutions for ANGLE are located here:

• /winrt/8.1/windows/src/angle.sln
• /winrt/8.1/windowsphone/src/angle.sln

The Visual Studio solution for Windows desktop applications is located here:

• /src/angle.sln

• Recent breaking changes
• Known issues with ANGLE
• Master ANGLE project info
• Deprecated ANGLE Windows 8.0 branch

If you have feedback about this branch then we would love to hear it. Please create an issue on this GitHub page, or contact the Microsoft contributors directly.

• Cooper Partin (coopp-at-microsoft-dot-com)
• Austin Kinross (aukinros-at-microsoft-dot-com)