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[Louis Holbrook <accounts@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good point, stupid question then. Sorry.

But then, for OpenGL|ES on Ubuntu Touch, is qt the only supporing
toolkit available? libSDL doesn't seem to be there either. Neither does
f.ex libclutter.

And anyway, would it make a difference in performance on the device to
use a different tk than qt?




On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 06:34 -0400, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
> On 2016-09-14 04:52 AM, Louis Holbrook wrote:
> > ldconfig -p suggests GLUT is not available on Ubuntu Touch (OTA-12).
> > 
> > Does one have to use qt for opengl, or is there a simpler/lighter WM
> > available?
> 
> Correct.  OpenGL is not available on Ubuntu Touch, iOS, Android, etc.
> 
> If you want to use graphics acceleration on mobile devices, you must use OpenGL|ES.  OpenGL|ES is supported by most
> modern toolkits including Qt and libSDL.  The last update to GLUT was over 16 years ago, it is not a modern toolkit.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen M. Webb  <stephen.webb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>