[Mesa-users] Running an OpenGL application without a Graphics Card "off-screen"

[Patrick Donnelly]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 03/07/2013 02:09 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to be able to run an OpenGL application on a machine without
>> a physical graphics card and capture the video output. My
>> understanding is that Mesa has facilities for this but I'm not sure
>> how to do it. Is it actually possible and how?
>
>
> "OSmesa".  See include/GL/osmesa.h  Build mesa with --enable-osmesa. Check
> out the Mesa demos package's src/osdemos/ directory for examples.

Do I have to rebuild the application? If so, is there any (even
exotic) workaround?

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- Patrick Donnelly