[wined3d] Converting Wined3d to use WGL instead of GLX

[Raphael]

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 04:53, Aric Cyr wrote:
> Hello all,
Hi,

> As I mentinoed in a recent post, I have almost completed the GLX->WGL
> conversion.  Last night I tracked down my last bug that was causing most of
> my demo apps to fail.
>
> It seems that the problem was the conversion from glXGetProcAddress to
> using wglGetProcAddress.  wined3d uses glXGetProcAddress to get the OpenGL
> extension function pointers, which is what wglGetProcAddress also does. 
> However wglGetProcAddress _first_ checks opengl32.dll for the extension and
> returns the thunk function pointer if it exists, and only then falls back
> to libGL.so by calling glXGetProcAddress.

> So now I am stuck...  if I use wglGetProcAddress for OpenGL extensions I
> get crashes in most D3D9 applications.  If I use glXGetProcAddress in
> wined3d everything works fine, but then wined3d is still dependent on glx.
>
> So my questions:
>
> 1) should the thunks returned from wglGetProcAddress be causing crashes at
> all? Note that they don't crash right away, but "eventually" usually during
> a call to glDrawArrays it seems (after a call to glSecondaryColor3fEXT).

The real problem here is "why it crash ?"
It shouldn't as wine gl* calls are only "decorators" calls
Maybe we have a declaration error...

Can you provide more informations:
- WINEDEBUG=+opengl log + winedbg crash log

> 2) what is the reason for wglGetProcAddress to check opengl32.dll before
>    libGL.so? Would the reverse logic still be a resonable solution?

No

> Regards,
>   Aric

Regards,
Raphael
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