[Mesa-dev] Haiku Mesa status

[Jakob Bornecrantz]

----- Original Message -----
> Good morning!
> 
> I really appreciate Mesa being open to accepting the Haiku patches.

Glad to hear.

> 
> The Haiku support is close to done. Given the current patches applied
> (plus a few small tweaks mentioned below), Mesa (and a few Gallium
> drivers!) build under Haiku.
> 
> Here is whats left for the basic build...
> 
>   * Haiku makefile.
>     - Mesa is moving away from makefiles to auto tools, while getting
> autotools to work for Haiku may be possible.. it is difficult and I
> have not succeeded yet.

It looks like Scons is available form Haiku-ports, could you use that?

>     - Right now I am using an un-pushed haiku make "configs" file
>   * libGLU will only build as a shared library
>     - This seems incorrect as a few makefiles in the Mesa configs
>     attempt to build it as static via "GLU_LIB_NAME = libGLU.a"
> 
> 
> Anyway, I have a mesa build script which generates this file which is
> pulled in and used by the Haiku build process:
> http://pub.haikufire.com/mesa/mesa-04e6db8-gcc4-x86.zip
> 
> So far things are looking good, we are getting close to a usable
> build process giving us the latest Mesa while putting minimal strain
> on the Mesa project as we don't have dedicated mesa developers.
> 
> Thanks!
>   -- Alex