# Changes glad\_gl.c

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/changes-glad-gl-c/1954>\
**Category:** meta\
**Created:** [December 8, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/changes-glad-gl-c/1954 "2021-12-08T11:25:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rafal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac91a4/32.png) [@Rafal](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/Rafal)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 11:25am UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/changes-glad-gl-c/1954/1 "2021-12-08T11:25:30Z")

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Hi,

I decided to enlighten my old projects.  
Currently, the glad\_gl.c file is not distributed by GLFW  
I know you can download it from this place: [https://glad.dav1d.de/](https://glad.dav1d.de/)  
Why such changes? sorry, I’m not on the topic from 2019

Thanks,  
– Rafał

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**Author:** ![dougbinks](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.glfw.org/dougbinks/32/39_2.png) [@dougbinks](https://discourse.glfw.org/u/dougbinks)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/changes-glad-gl-c/1954/2 "2021-12-08T12:53:18Z")

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Hi @Rafal,

If you are referring to the Github repository then this change is due to this commit:

> <https://github.com/glfw/glfw/commit/62074f3dea0f3f2c63cb2d1263ca0f275ffc418b#diff-f93464a48a2b9281080b555fac1081b1852154552800cbc6a2440ad1e3629033>
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> This updates to a newer version of glad2 and switches to the header-only
> variant….
> 
> This also (finally) switches to the newer glad2 loader signature that
> allows us to pass in glfwGetInstanceProcAddress directly.

The 3.3.5 GLFW version `glfw-3.3.5` from the [GLFW main page](https://www.glfw.org/) still includes `glad_gl.c` in the `deps` folder.

Note that these dependencies are only included for the examples - GLFW itself does not require Glad and you are free to use any extension loading mechanism if you require one. So Glad isn’t included in the binary downloads.

Cheers,

Dougl.