Re: [Libvisual-devel] GL library linkage

[Vitaly V. B. <vit...@us...>]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:07:57 +0200
Burkhard Plaum <pl...@ip...> wrote:

> Dennis Smit wrote:
> > I don't think wrapping ALL gl calls is a good idea, however, it might
> > be good to have some functions within lvdisplay to request glxcontext,
> > pbuffers and the such, or rather make it possible to access the GLX
> > stuff.
> 
> I agree with Dennis.
> Something like glxMakeCurrent MUST be wrapped, because it looks different,
> on systems, which don't have GLX. Making plugins depend on GLX restricts
> their usage to X11.
Agree, they will be (alreary are) wrapped with
context_create(), context_delete(), context_activate.

> Other systems MUST have something analogous then, because OpenGL doesn't
> know about windows, so some glue lib between Window system <-> OpenGL
> is always needed.
Even more. Non gl render targets can have contexts also.

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Vitaly
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