Re: [sdljava-users] glew initialisation too early in gljava

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

Sounds good.  Thanks for letting me know about this.

I will make it so that the user of the library has to initialize it
themselves via a static init function.  If this sounds wrong please let
me know, otherwise,  I will go ahead and implement it.

-Ivan/

Gregor M=FCckl wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I discovered that the initialisation of glew happens far to early in glj=
ava,=20
>thus crashing any program that wants to use it. The reason is that newer=
=20
>nvidia drivers (correctly) don't return a value on glGetString(GL_VERSIO=
N)=20
>unless there is a valid glx context from which this function is called. =
See=20
>glxinfo as an example on how it should be done.
>
>The glew initialisation sits in a static block which is executed on prog=
ram=20
>startup, far too early to give the program a chance to create a context.=
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>Maybe you should move that to a user-callable init function instead of=20
>executing it automatically?
>
>Regards,
>Gregor
>
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