[LWJGL] GLFW_VERSION_UNAVAILABLE error on MacBook Pro 2015

[johnboy14]

I receive the following error when running the Main class on my Macbook Pro. My Macbook pro currently supports OpenGL 4.1. So I'm utterly confused about this error.

[LWJGL] GLFW_VERSION_UNAVAILABLE error
	Description : NSGL: The targeted version of macOS only supports forward-compatible core profile contexts for OpenGL 3.2 and above
	Stacktrace  :
		org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.nglfwCreateWindow(GLFW.java:1649)
		org.lwjgl.glfw.GLFW.glfwCreateWindow(GLFW.java:1827)
		core.kernel.Window.create(Window.java:61)
		core.kernel.CoreEngine.createWindow(CoreEngine.java:41)
		core.Main.main(Main.java:9)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202823

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) AMD Radeon R9 M370X 4.1 1.2

[adamarbour]

I had/have the same issue. In order to use 4.1 on your mac, you'll need to provide some additional hints. You can see that the default profile for most macs is 2.1 (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202823) however the core profile is 4.1 for newer macs.

In order to use this, you'll need to add the following hints:

glfw.window_hint(glfw.CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4)
glfw.window_hint(glfw.CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 1)
glfw.window_hint(glfw.OPENGL_PROFILE, glfw.OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE) <--- This telling the mac to use the core profile
glfw.window_hint(glfw.OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPAT, True) <--- This telling the mac to deprecate everything before it basically

With these hints, I have no issue using the 4.1 version. Hopefully, you've figured this out by now but if not, the information is here for reference.

[baughmann]

For future reference, this is still happening. The changes to Window.java that I had to make on my 2019 iMac Pro are as follows:

Inside create()

glfwWindowHint(GLFW_RESIZABLE, GL_TRUE);	
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MAJOR, 4);	
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_CONTEXT_VERSION_MINOR, 1);
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_PROFILE, GLFW_OPENGL_CORE_PROFILE);
glfwWindowHint(GLFW_OPENGL_FORWARD_COMPAT, GL_TRUE);