[Xcb] XCB and GLX

[Vincent Torri]

I don't know at all. There are some posts about that on the ML.

Vincent

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jeremy Kolb wrote:

> Are their plans to XCBify GLX? Other extensions have been.  Wouldn't it
> be needed down the road sometime?
>
> Jeremy
>
> Vincent Torri wrote:
> > Xcl is an interface between XCB and Xlib programs. You can use it as you
> > would use Xlib. In particular, the XDisplay structure of xcl is the one
> > you should use and is built from a XCBConnection.
> >
> > but xcl is no more supported. Compile X11 (from freedesktop.org) with xcb
> > support (it replaces xcl). Then X11 will use XCB. See
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxcb
> >
> > and if you want to fully support xcb, without an interface, well, you have
> > to re-write glx ;)
> >
> > hth
> >
> > Vincent TORRI
> >
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Patrick Guimond wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I was wondering if there is any possibility of using GLX when using XCB.
> >
> > My current problem is that when using XCB, I don't have any Display
> > structure that GLX would be using, only the XCBConnection.
> >
> > I looked in XCL and it seems possible to get a pointer to the
> > XCBConnection from the Display structure, but I don't see any way to do
> > the opposite, that is, create a Display structure from an XCBConnection.
> >
> > Would there be a way to this without initializing the connection with
> > XCL? Would there be a way to use GLX only with XCB, as I try to get rid
> > of XCL/Xlib as much as possible?
> >
> >
> > Patrick Guimond
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