How to build ANGLE for Windows Store

ANGLE provides OpenGL ES 2.0 and EGL 1.4 libraries and dlls. You can use these to build and run OpenGL ES 2.0 applications on Windows.

Development setup

ANGLE for Windows Store uses most of the same steps found in ANGLE Development with a few changes.

Required Tools

Getting the source

Set the following environment variables as needed:

  • GYP_GENERATORS to msvs
  • GYP_MSVS_VERSION to 2015
  • GYP_GENERATE_WINRT to 1

Download the ANGLE source by running the following commands:

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle
python angle/scripts/bootstrap.py
gclient sync
git checkout master

Gyp will generate multiple VS2015 solution files

  • winrt/10/src/angle.sln for Windows 10

Building ANGLE

  1. Open one of the ANGLE Visual Studio solution files (see Getting the source).
  2. Select Build -> Configuration Manager
  3. In the “Active solution configuration:” drop down, select the desired configuration (eg. Release), and close the Configuration Manager.
  4. Select Build -> Build Solution. Once the build completes, the output directory for your selected configuration (eg. Release_Win32, located next to the solution file) will contain the required libraries and dlls to build and run an OpenGL ES 2.0 application.

To Use ANGLE in Your Application

  1. A template for creating a Windows Store application that uses ANGLE can be found here.
  2. Configure your build environment to have access to the include folder to provide access to the standard Khronos EGL and GLES2 header files.
  • For Visual C++
    • Right-click your project in the Solution Explorer, and select Properties.
    • Under the Configuration Properties branch, click C/C++.
    • Add the relative path to the Khronos EGL and GLES2 header files to Additional Include Directories.
  1. Configure your build environment to have access to libEGL.lib and libGLESv2.lib found in the build output directory (see Building ANGLE).
  • For Visual C++
    • Right-click your project in the Solution Explorer, and select Properties.
    • Under the Configuration Properties branch, open the Linker branch and click Input.
    • Add the relative paths to both the libEGL.lib file and libGLESv2.lib file to Additional Dependencies, separated by a semicolon.
  1. Copy libEGL.dll and libGLESv2.dll from the build output directory (see Building ANGLE) into your application folder or packages location if a ANGLE Windows Store NuGet was used.
  2. Code your application to the Khronos OpenGL ES 2.0 and EGL 1.4 APIs.