Shader Compilation

Shader Compilation is the process of text in the OpenGL Shading Language and loading it into OpenGL to be used as a Shader. OpenGL has three ways to compile shader text into useable OpenGL objects. All of these forms of compilation produce a Program Object.

Separate programs

Separate Shader Stages

Core in version		4.6
Core since version		4.1
Core ARB extension	ARB_separate_shader_objects

Binary upload

Program Binary

Core in version		4.6
Core since version		4.1
Core ARB extension	ARB_get_program_binary