Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/12/23:04:16
On 12 Jan 1997, Brian J. Schrock wrote:
> I just read john Carmack's .plan file. I like him have been trying to
> develope with directX 3.0. If Open gl is much easier to use I would like to
> know if it exists. I am reasonably sure because of the linux ports of
> tcl/tk and x-windows but do not know where to start and what to get, I've
> been to SGI and thought maybe I could port glut but I do not have 6 months
> to spend on that.
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>
probably not..
there's a PD library emulation of GLX (the OpenGL extensions to X) so if
you wanna run GLX apps like ivview remotely on a machine that doesn't have
GLX in the X server, I think that's the way to go.
there's also Mesa, which allegedly has the same programming interface as
OpenGL and supports the same functionality, but I've never tried it. M$ is
also allegedly gonna? has? support/ed native OpenGL in NT if you have one
of 'em expensive cards. But for DJGPP which isn't really windoze-centric,
I wouldn't know.
the other thing is, the GLX lib and Mesa are for Unix, and they expect to
be able to connect to an X server. There is a port of X11 to DJGPP, but
it's pretty old and requires GRX 1.x which is broken into tiny pieces
under DJGPP 2.x
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