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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Mesa 18 and up does indeed support OpenGL 4.5,
however, the software renderer (llvmpipe) in Mesa only supports
GL 3.3. However, in the upcoming Mesa 20.2 release, llvmpipe
should support GL 4.5.</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">Though do note that software rendering is
generally quote slow, anything even beyond very basic use cases
should generally use hardware rendering whenever possible.</span></p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/20/20 8:58 AM, Hisham M. Sueyllam
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am using opengl on
Cygwin/x with direct hardware rendering and able to use
opengl 4.6 which is supported by my Radeon. However, Motif
is not fully supported on Cygwin since the Microsoft kernel
is proprietary and hence a restricted license was given to
Cygwin. I tried WSL and Motif there is fully supported,
however direct hardware rendering is not supported and has
to be done using Mesa software rendering. glxinfo tells me
that I have opengl core 3.3 and Mesa 18.3.6</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Well searching the net,
it says that Mesa 18 and up supports opengl 4.0 and beyond.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am really confused, is there an
explanation for such contradiction…</p>
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