opengl support in wine
Tomas Carnecky
tom at dbservice.com
Thu Dec 1 10:12:47 CST 2005
I've had a discussion with someone through this list about wine and
libGL.so. It was
about wine using dlopen("libGL.so") instead of linking directly with
libGL.so.
I still don't understand why the wine developers have made this
decision. I'm again at
the point where I need to hook OpenGL (glX) functions ahd I have to
patch wine again
to make it work.
There is absolutely no reason not to link with libGL.so directly:
Even if you make OpenGL a hard dependency, nothing will break. Just announce
it well so that everybody understands the change and make
--disable-opengl the default
option. Now everyone can get wine and it will work out-of-the-box and
those who want
opengl can enable it (and the distribution packagers should make sure
wine depends on
opengl when building the package).
tom
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