This entire forum has always been in some form of peril wrt OpenGL… This topic is a consistent source of terrible confusion and misinformation.
Plainly put:
- JUCE doesn’t follow OpenGL pipelining very well.
- Your driver always reports the latest version of OpenGL. The version reported has nothing to do with the instantiation of the context on Windows.
- To get all of the features you need, we shouldn’t be fucking around with macros in the framework - let alone cryptic ones that conflict logistically with the APIs provided. Instead, we should be wrangling the functions and loading any and all of that, even lazily - as is the way of GL. But alas, we aren’t… (See FR: Wrangle a comprehensive set of OpenGL functions & macros )
- Various plugins do use JUCE’s GL. The performance gains are minimal at best, or cause cross platform issues at worst. You’re better off writing a simple renderer using the GL pipeline to be able to get everything out of it.