[Mesa-dev] OpenGL on Wayland

[Kenneth Graunke]

On Friday, June 27, 2014 08:08:21 PM Kalrish Bäakjen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am working on a project that uses EGL and defers drawing to render
> modules. To maintain compatibility with Wayland and avoid being tied to X,
> I have chosen OpenGL ES 3. As it is difficult for me to find information
> about this API, I would rather use its desktop counterpart; however, as
> said, this would make it impossible to run my application on Wayland.
> 
> What is the status of OpenGL on Wayland? Are there any plans on
> emancipating it from GLX?
> 
> Thank you, and, please, forgive me if this message does not correspond to
> these lists. Regards,
> Kalrish

You can run desktop OpenGL on Wayland just fine.  As an example, Piglit/Waffle 
contains hundreds of small OpenGL applications which at can run on 
EGL/Wayland, EGL/X11, or GLX, and decide which to use purely at run-time.

libGL does contain GLX, so there are X build dependencies.  But that doesn't 
mean your application is "tied to X".  X does not need to be running.

That said, it would be great if someone who knows dispatch would revisit the 
new OpenGL ABI issue.  nVidia put together a great proposal for new separate 
libOpenGL.so and libGLX.so libraries, and us Mesa folks have pretty much 
dropped the ball. :(

--Ken
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