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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: use libexpoxy
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Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: use libexpoxy |
Date: |
Tue, 12 May 2015 15:48:04 +0200 |
On Di, 2015-05-12 at 14:10 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 May 2015 at 14:04, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > libepoxy does the opengl extension handling for us.
> >
> > It also is helpful for trouble-shooting as it prints nice error messages
> > instead of silently failing or segfaulting in case we do something
> > wrong, like using gl commands not supported by the current context.
>
> How widely supported is this library? How long has it been around,
> is it carried by all the distros, does it work ok on OSX and Windows?
>
> I'm a bit uncertain about adding dependencies that would limit the
> scope where we can provide important functionality like 3D
> acceleration.
https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy
It is relatively new (a bit more than a year old), supposed to work on
both osx and windows (didn't test myself though), and it seems to be
commonly included in distros (although newer versions only).
cheers,
Gerd