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RE: SGI OpenGL SI libs updated
- To: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>, <cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: SGI OpenGL SI libs updated
- From: Andre Bleau <andre dot bleau at courriel dot polymtl dot ca>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:35:04 -0400
- References: <4.3.2.7.0.20000614143201.00b03ba8@courriel.polymtl.ca>
At 15:34 2000-06-14 -0400, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>NO GLX support at the moment. OpenGL extension had been disabled at the
>moemnt.
>It is buggy and buggy like a HELL in XFree86 4.0, which caused a lot of
>grief
>for Linux users. Beside, we have to a lot of code modifications if we have
>to support
>DirectX rendering and GLX rendering both. Third, DRI will never work
>through SGI
>so why bother with software rendering , when you can statically link the glx
>to your app
>and run it. I have done it 10 times...
Thanksfor your response. How do you do that static linking with the glx ?
Do you have any pointer to some reference ?
Regards.
André Bleau, ing., analyste
bleau@courriel.polymtl.ca
Département de génie électrique et Electric Engineering and
de génie informatique Computer Engineering department
École Polytechnique de Montréal Montreal Polytechnic School