Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: use libexpoxy

[Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>]

On 05/12/2015 03:48 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Di, 2015-05-12 at 14:10 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 12 May 2015 at 14:04, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> 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).

It successfully disables OpenGL support on my 12.3 installation and thus 
fixes compilation there. Hooray ;).


Alex