LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library
LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs such as OpenGL, OpenAL, and OpenCL.
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You should now be ready to develop and launch an LWJGL application. Following is a simple example that utilizes GLFW to create a window and clear the background color to red, using OpenGL.
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Early Access “Snapshot build, possibly broken” LWJGL 3.4.1-snapshot build 2 Feb 3, 2026, 10:44 AM PST
Overview (LWJGL 3.4.0-snapshot)
Contains implementation details and platform-specific functionality required to make LWJGL work.
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/release/latest/windows/x64 - LWJGL
lwjgl_libdivide.dll https://build.lwjgl.org/release/latest/windows/x64/lwjgl_libdivide.dll lwjgl_llvm.dll https://build.lwjgl.org/release/latest/windows/x64/lwjgl_llvm.dll lwjgl_lmdb.dll …
/release/3.3.1 - LWJGL
linux macosx windows lwjgl-3.3.1.zip https://build.lwjgl.org/release/3.3.1/lwjgl-3.3.1.zip
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Jan 18, 2015 · The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java.