[PATCH] Android: glretracer for Android.

[Juha-Pekka Heikkilä]

Hei,

I'm back from vacation being lot more tan :) Thanks for all the feedback
while I was away!

Nigel, did you get things working? In Waffle directory there is /example
folder where if you do "mm" and then "adb remount" and "adb sync" you will
get small program called "gl_basic" into your device. This is very simple
test software for Waffle which should show in top left corner of the
screen red, green and blue boxes one after each other. If this work then
Waffle work ok. Good command line for running gl_basic would for example
be "gl_basic android gles2". I have previously successfully run Waffle on
ICS and JB&JBMR2 with PVR and Mesa drivers -- the driver underneath
Surfaceflinger should not matter so much I think. Retracer I have now run
only on top of JBMR2 with Mesa. In any case you should have seen some
window with Waffle, the window size with retracer coming from the trace
file.

I am currently fixing things Alexander pointed out for me. I am also
pondering what should I do with the issue where now thanks to Waffle I am
adding requirement for full Android tree instead of just the ndk. It would
of course be possible to change from cmakefiles those 'if (ANDROID)' which
I added to check for if Waffle was found but don't know if it is worth the
effort?

/Juha-Pekka


On Tue, July 9, 2013 8:27 pm, Chad Versace wrote:
> (Apologies for the delayed reply. Vacation + a cold recently).
>
> When using GLX and X11/EGL, I always see the window. But, I can't
> vouch for Android. To my knowledge, Juha-Pekka is the only one
> who has been working on Waffle for Android. I've never ran it on Android,
> and no longer have my dev environment set up to do that.
>
> There is a call to setLayer() in droid_surfaceflingerlink.cpp. Maybe the
> secret magic should be there, but I'm just guessing.
>
>
> On 07/03/2013 11:29 AM, Nigel Stewart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I got as far as a working binary for Android 4.2 using waffle.
>> For some reason I don't see the OpenGL window on the screen,
>> I guess it might need some help to be top-most, or something
>> like that.
>>
>> Chad,
>>
>> Heard of that happening for other waffle deployments?
>>
>> - Nigel
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Nigel Stewart <nigels.com at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Ah, thanks for the clarifications.
>>>
>>> I filed a github pull request for building apitrace with cmake for
>>> Android.
>>> https://github.com/apitrace/apitrace/pull/155
>>>
>>> It's a small subet of Juha-Pekka's patch set.
>>> It was puzzling that I couldn't seem to build master branch of
>>> apitrace for Android on Ubuntu 12.04, cmake 2.8.7.
>>> But it's possible I'm still missing something important... :-)
>>>
>>> - Nigel
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Chad Versace
>>> <chad.versace at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>> Waffle is intended to built in the Android source tree along with the
>>>> rest of the system. It's not possible to do otherwise since it
>>>> depends on APIs, internal to the Android system and not shipped by the
>>>> NDK,
>>>> for communicating with the compositor.
>>>>
>>>> To build Waffle, clone the source to $ANDROID_TOP/external/waffle and
>>>> call `mmm external/waffle`.
>>>>
>>>> Unlike Waffle, APITrace is intended to be built outside the Android
>>>> source
>>>> tree because it relies only on NDK APIs. APITrace has some good docs
>>>> on how
>>>> to do that; just to search INSTALL.markdown for Android. Using
>>>> APITrace on
>>>> Android is tricky, but not too tricky; read Dalvik.markdown for
>>>> instructions.
>>>>
>>>> I don't recommend trying to use APITrace on Android < 4.0.
>>>>
>>>> As for the most important part, how to use Juha's glretracer on
>>>> Android, I
>>>> don't how to do that. You're on your own when solving that until Juha
>>>> returns
>>>> from vacation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/01/2013 12:27 PM, Nigel Stewart wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Any tips for building Waffle and/or apitrace for Android via the
>>>>> Android.mk or cmake?
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think I'm savvy enough with either of these build systems to
>>>>> troubleshoot my way to a working binary.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Nigel
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Chad Versace
>>>>> <chad.versace at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 06/27/2013 04:17 AM, Juha-Pekka Heikkila wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I limited glws_waffle.cpp strictly to Android only but it probably
>>>>>>> would
>>>>>>> start to work quite easily also on desktop. Before Waffle port of
>>>>>>> glretrace
>>>>>>> for desktop could work Waffle need waffle_window_resize API call to
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> implemented for other plarforms than Android.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To build for Android Waffle need to be build first.
>>>>>>> Waffle can be obtained from:
>>>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~chadversary/waffle/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Make sure these patches are in place for Waffle before compiling
>>>>>>> (at time of writing they are still stuck on the list)
>>>>>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/waffle/2013-June/000167.html
>>>>>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/waffle/2013-June/000168.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These two patches are now committed to Waffle master branch. There's
>>>>>> no longer a need to apply them by hand.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>
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