Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE)

ANGLE allows for the creation of compliant OpenGL ES contexts running on underlying platform APIs. Most often used by browsers to provide WebGL, but also useful for writing code that is portable between desktop applications and mobile phones. PAL2 has built-in support for ANGLE using ANGLEOpenGLComponent. PlatformComponents.PreferANGLE can be used to prefer loading ANGLEOpenGLComponent over the native IOpenGLComponent. Contexts created by ANGLEOpenGLComponent will be OpenGL ES (not Desktop OpenGL contexts) contexts of thee requested version.

To be able to run ANGLEOpenGLComponent the ANGLE native dependencies need to be available to load. On windows those are: libEGL.dll, libGLESv1_CM.dll, libGLESv2.dll, and d3dcompiler_47.dll (as of 2023-10-14).

For other platforms such as linux and macOS other dependencies are needed. These will be documented in time, and ideally a nuget package with the native ANGLE dependencies will be created.