<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:base="" xml:id="eglInitialize">
    <info>
         <copyright>
             <year>2003-2014</year>
             <holder>The Khronos Group Inc.</holder>
         </copyright>
    </info>
    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>eglInitialize</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>3G</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>
    <refnamediv>
        <refname>eglInitialize</refname>
        <refpurpose>
            initialize an <acronym>EGL</acronym> display connection
        </refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>
    <refsynopsisdiv>
        <title>C Specification</title>
        <funcsynopsis>
            <funcprototype>
                <funcdef>EGLBoolean <function>eglInitialize</function></funcdef>
                <paramdef>EGLDisplay <parameter>display</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>EGLint * <parameter>major</parameter></paramdef>
                <paramdef>EGLint * <parameter>minor</parameter></paramdef>
            </funcprototype>
        </funcsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>
    <refsect1 xml:id="parameters"><title>Parameters</title>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><parameter>display</parameter></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Specifies the EGL display connection to initialize.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><parameter>major</parameter></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Returns the major version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <constant>NULL</constant>.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><parameter>minor</parameter></term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>
                        Returns the minor version number of the EGL implementation.
                        May be <constant>NULL</constant>.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="description"><title>Description</title>
        <para>
            <function>eglInitialize</function> initialized the EGL display
            connection obtained with
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>eglGetDisplay</refentrytitle></citerefentry>.
            Initializing an already initialized EGL display connection has no
            effect besides returning the version numbers.
        </para>
        <para>
            <parameter>major</parameter> and <parameter>minor</parameter>
            do not return values if they are specified as <constant>NULL</constant>.
        </para>
        <para>
            Use <citerefentry><refentrytitle>eglTerminate</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
            to release resources associated with an EGL display connection.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="errors"><title>Errors</title>
        <para>
            <constant>EGL_FALSE</constant> is returned if
            <function>eglInitialize</function> fails,
            <constant>EGL_TRUE</constant> otherwise.
            <parameter>major</parameter> and <parameter>minor</parameter> are not
            modified when <constant>EGL_FALSE</constant> is returned.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>EGL_BAD_DISPLAY</constant> is generated if
            <parameter>display</parameter> is not an EGL display connection.
        </para>
        <para>
            <constant>EGL_NOT_INITIALIZED</constant> is generated if
            <parameter>display</parameter> cannot be initialized.
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <refsect1 xml:id="seealso"><title>See Also</title>
        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>eglGetDisplay</refentrytitle></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>eglTerminate</refentrytitle></citerefentry>
        </para>
    </refsect1>
    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="copyright.xml"/>
</refentry>