From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:50:55 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] opengl In-Reply-To: <20120725191343.0f1f0b9c@skate> References: <20120725191343.0f1f0b9c@skate> Message-ID: <501031FF.6050302@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/25/12 19:13, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:02:56 -0700, > Charles Krinke a ?crit : > >> > I have a question about opengl and Qt in working with a TI AM3517EVM. >> > I can compile and run Qt, no problem, with buildroot, but my >> > application guy says opengl will speed up rendering. >> > >> > In looking at make xconfig, I see that libevas, the Enlightment >> > libraries have a opengl sub-setting, which is grayed out. It looks >> > like this depends on X11. >> > >> > My question is "Is there a way to use opengl wtih Qt with buildroot >> > and a) how does opengl connect logically with Qt and b) How to enable >> > opengl so Qt can use it?" > OpenGL on TI stuff requires the proprietary OpenGL implementation from > TI, and we don't have a package for it in Buildroot at the moment. It > would however be really great to have it packaged, but if you want to > work on it, be ready for a fairly complex adventure. Those proprietary > libraries typically have really nasty build systems, and cause lots of > pain to integrate properly in a build environment like Buildroot. Having gone through that venture myself, I can confirm that this is painful. I posted patches in January [1], but it was just too complicated to get it in a form that could be maintainable, so I gave up. Regards, Arnout [1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-January/049264.html -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F