[Mesa-users] RES: Error compiling 8.0.2 in Windows, and some support

[Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar]

Thanks for your support, Brian! 

I didn't manage to build the 7.11.2 version because it lacks
opengl32.mingw.def (as I recall from memory), but succeeded in building
7.10.x which has this *.def. 

Now there's another problem, maybe some of "other ways" you feel the driver
may fail :) It tries to call a dxtn.dll, which is not present, do you know
what it is? 

Tomorrow may be a luckier day,

Bruno Kim.

PS.: walking through the code I found a cpp with Lisp code that is processed
by a custom builtin compiler... Can't say if it's awesome or frightening!

-----Mensagem original-----
De: Brian Paul [mailto:brianp at vmware.com] 
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 3 de maio de 2012 16:49
Para: Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar
Cc: mesa-users at lists.freedesktop.org
Assunto: Re: [Mesa-users] Error compiling 8.0.2 in Windows, and some support

On 05/03/2012 12:41 PM, Bruno Kim Medeiros Cesar wrote:
> Hello, all. I'm trying to build Mesa 8.0.2 in Windows 7, using
>
> scons platform=windows machine=x86 statetrackers=mesa winsys=gdi 
> build=release drivers=gdi,mesagdi,mesa,trace
>
> and bumped in the following error while compiling wmesa.c:
>
> Compiling src\mesa\drivers\windows\gdi\wmesa.c ...
>
> -- snip --
>
> Finished generating code
>
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
>
> The error is clear enough, I looked at the source and indeed there is 
> no function pointer member of gl_renderbuffer.

Yeah, the windows driver hasn't had much attention lately.  I'm
cherry-picking some changes from Mesa master to the 8.0 branch to hopefully
fix this problem for the next 8.0.x release.  But I have a feeling that the
driver may fail in other ways.

You're probably best off going back to 7.12 or 7.11 release.


> Sidenote 1: why not provide standalone DLLs?

Nobody has volunteered to make/maintain them.


> Sidenote 2: my need is solely software rendering, which drivers should 
> I pass to scons? And where is documented the available CLI arguments?
> Statetrackers and winsys aren't documented at -h.

The "osmesa" target will build the "Off-Screen" Mesa interface which doesn't
use any wgl/glx entrypoingts.


>
> Sidenote 3: I will now try to build with windows as target in a Linux
> environment, because the Windows build process requires a lot of Unix
> dependencies - had to install MinGW, GnuWin32 and such. How could it
> be minimized? I saw that you need help maintaining Windows driver
> building, testing and maintenance, how could I help? Just checking out
> the repo and testing new releases is enough, or more expertise is
> required? I'm just a Java developer intern without much experience J

Checking out the code and trying to fix build issues would be great.

-Brian