From: khan@xraylith.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: Mesa Graphics Library 27 Aug 1998 07:03:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: <199808250909.CAA06108@cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Paul Garceau Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Paul Garceau wrote: > Hi folks, > > Has anyone heard of the Mesa Graphics Library? I recently downloaded > a copy and have been working on attempting to make a native windows port of > this package using EGCS-Mingw32. I remember Brian Paul mentioning that someone was working on; this was a few years ago, and I haven't really kept up with Mesa development since. Was there nothing about Win32 in the latest distrib? > > Is anyone else working with this library for Gnu-Win32? If so, please let > me know what you have discovered as I do not want to be forced to re-invent > the wheel where this graphics lib is concerned. > I'm using MS OpenGL, so haven't had the need. If someone else doesn't do it, I'll probably give it a shot. Do remember that Mesa can be quite slow unless; there are some patches to support hardware accelaration, but only available for a few systems. One of my packages uses Mesa on Linux, and the slowdown is quite noticable for complex 3D real-time simulation (wave front propagation). That's probably the only tool I have that runs faster under Solaris 2.6 than under Linux on the same machine. MS OpenGL isn't that great either, so ... Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".