README.md
1[LEGACY] LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library
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4> **WARNING**
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6> This is the repository of the original LWJGL, which is no longer actively maintained. Unless you have released a product that uses LWJGL 2.x, you should probably be looking at [LWJGL 3](https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl3).
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8The 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.
9LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library), OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound.
10Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks.
11All in a simple and straight forward API.
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13Website: [http://legacy.lwjgl.org](http://legacy.lwjgl.org)
14Forum: [http://forum.lwjgl.org](http://forum.lwjgl.org)
15Bugs/Suggestions: [https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl/issues](https://github.com/LWJGL/lwjgl/issues)
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17Compilation
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20LWJGL requires a JDK and Ant installed to compile, as well as your platforms native compiler to compile the JNI.
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22* ant generate-all
23* ant compile
24* ant compile_native
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