[Mesa-dev] Building the xa-vmwgfx target

[Thomas Hellström]

On 9/7/12 11:09 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Thomas Hellström <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
>> On 9/7/12 10:39 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>>> I'm converting the remaining static Makefile to automake, so xa and
>>> xa-vmwgfx is on my todo list.
>>>
>>> I'm very confused by the build though. It seems that the xa state
>>> tracker is built and linked into a single .o file, which is then
>>> statically linked into xa-vmwgfx. This is reasonably sensible, but
>>> then we also build a libxatracker.so file which is installed to the
>>> system that nothing links to.
>>>
>>> Can I switch this to xa-vmwgfx linking to a shared libxatracker.so? Or
>>> perhaps just linking it statically and not installing a libxatracker
>>> file at all. Either of these seem more like the right thing to do, but
>>> not being familiar with this code I thought it better to ask.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Matt
>> The xa-vmwgfx target actually builds libxatracker.so, which is a library
>> used
>> by external applications, like libGL.so, but currently it works only with
>> vmware.
>>
>> /Thomas
>>
> Ahh, I see. I had thought (probably because I was expecting the
> result) that xa-vmwgfx built a DDX called *_drv.so.
OK. Yes that was the old xorg-vmwgfx target which is now removed.
Instead the "external application" I was referring to is the vmware DDX, 
which
is built as a freestanding module, and it uses libxatracker.so for 
acceleration
if present.

/Thomas


> Thanks for your quick response!
> Matt