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[Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo <miguelangel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Torsten, I'm yet a little bit lost...,

    so you're building a graphic abstraction layer to run over OpenGL?,

    That's great, painting over a graphic abstraction layer should make
things much more simple
for drawing (when it's done), and we must get much better graphical results.



2012/5/17 "Torsten Hüter" <torstenhtr@xxxxxx>

> Hi Jean,
>
> no, usually MESA is not required. What you only need is the opengl32.dll
> and the glu32.dll (e.g. C:\Windows\System32). The graphics card driver
> should provide the latest versions for these files. The old version of the
> MinGW OpenGL headers is normal, that's the same on my system - the purpose
> of GLEW is to wrap the functions of OpenGL > 1.3.
> So I'd guess you have an old driver/ a conficting library or headers
> somewhere. Perhaps OpenGL 2.1 is not supported on your system ( some older
> Intel GMA Chipsets support only < 2.0 ).
>
> A nice tool for troubleshooting is "GLview":
> http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html
>
> There you can check, which extensions are supported.
>
> I've found some movies on youtube, which are maybe also helpful:
>
> OpenGL 4.2 + MinGW
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8XRKBk40VA
>
> OpenGL Superbible example (OpenGL 3.3), MinGW:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PbY7SM7P3w
>
> --
>
> I'll try next week to compile on my notebook (Windows 7 however), I'll
> check if I run into the same troubles ..
>
> Bye,
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> >
> >
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