Notes on adding accelerated OpenGL support to Cygwin/X

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

I assume that a lot of users and potential users are interested in 
accelerated OpenGL support.  Adding this isn't particularly hard, since 
we simply pass off OpenGL calls to the Win32 OpenGL system and because 
the Xdarwin (a.k.a. X on X, a.k.a. Apple) have already done a very 
similar system for their platform.

I am interested in adding this support as well, but I think it would be 
nice if some users and/or developers out there would help get this 
started by creating some of the boilerplate files for me and ensuring 
that these initial files compile correctly (although they will not do 
anything and might not link correctly).

I have put together a one page set of notes on the files that we need to 
adapt to our platform and the minor changes to the build system that we 
need to make to get those files to build:

http://msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/CygwinX-Accelerated-OpenGL-Support-20040128.pdf 
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These notes apply to the CYGWIN tag on the xorg repository that lives at 
freedesktop.org.  See the XWin Server development page for information 
on how to check out a tree:

http://x.cygwin.com/devel/server/


I encourage everyone to take a shot at this.  Most of the tasks marked 
as "Boilerplate", "Trivial", and "Easy" could be done by someone with no 
real knowledge of programming at all.  Now is your chance to jump in and 
start building your knowledge of programming.

Harold