From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50612) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAXj-0004SB-8Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 09:48:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAXb-0007MA-57 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 09:48:19 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YsAXa-0007JT-RO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 09:48:11 -0400 Message-ID: <1431438484.4703.39.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:48:04 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1431435870-14392-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ui: use libexpoxy List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers , Alexander Graf On Di, 2015-05-12 at 14:10 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 May 2015 at 14:04, Gerd Hoffmann 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