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[jean-pierre charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 29/04/2012 17:47, "Torsten Hüter" a écrit :
> Hi Jean,
>
> > OpenGl creates problems under Windows and MinGw,
> > because the available version is old (1.3) and GAL cannot be easily
> > compiled.
>
> I'm compiling it currently on Windows, it works so far well - I had only problems with GLEW and cairo, it wasn't found automatically. So I'm using hard-coded paths on my computer; I have to modify the CMake scripts or provide external variables for CMake. On Windows I've renamed Dick's POINT name alias for VECTOR2D to POINT2D, because POINT is already existing and I had some trouble.
> What kind of hardware are you using? I've raised the requirement to at least OpenGL 2.1, usually that shouldn't be any problem on a recent computer - because we're now at OpenGL 4.2 :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL
>
> If we need to support 1.3 I have to write some workarounds.
>
> Thanks,
> Torsten

Hi, Torsten,

I also have trouble with GLEW and POINT.
I just added GLEW in Kicad-gal to compile it with Kicad-gal, and renamed POINT.
(Currently I can run only the Cairo version of demos)

The issue relative to OpenGL (run time error: opengl version 2.1 not supported)
is due to the fact MinGw come from a rather old version of OpenGl (Mesa GL, in fact)
(comments in .h headers show a 2002 version) and not an hardware issue.
My MinGW installation is a recent version (now including GDIplus).

So my question is:
Are you using the Opengl libs and headers coming from Mingw,
or have you installed a recent version of MESA GL under Windows?
(Recent Mesa version seems do not have an easy install under Mingw/Windows)

Thanks.

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Jean-Pierre CHARRAS