Question about cairo-gl

[Stanislav Vorobiov]

Hi,

IMHO cairo gl isn't much tested/supported in weston since it has bad performance, you should probably just
use sw cairo.

Thanks.

On 05/14/2014 11:56 PM, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> The wayland build instructions also include the building of pixman and cairo in order to enable the cairo gl backend.
> 
> However I get the impression that weston does not use this unless a switch --with-cairo=gl is passed to configure. Only then does it produce calls to attempt to make a context (they fail on my machine so it uses the image backend anyway). Also without
> this switch weston clients happily link with and run with the system cairo which has no gl backend.
> 
> Since I am trying to figure out working build instructions, I was wondering what to do with this step:
> 
> 1. Remove the compilation of pixmap & cairo
> 
> 2. Add the --with-cairo=gl switch
> 
> 3. It actually works without that switch, it's just that it is broken on my machine where no egl works.
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