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Compiling GLFW manually</h1>
<p>If you wish to compile GLFW without its CMake build environment then you will have to do at least some platform-detection yourself. There are preprocessor macros for enabling support for the platforms (window systems) available. There are also optional, platform-specific macros for various features.</p>
<p>When building, GLFW will expect the necessary configuration macros to be defined on the command-line. The GLFW CMake files set these as p