On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 23:00:07 -0400 mik firestone <mikf...@gmail.com> said:
> I've been having some issues lately that I've finally traced down to > two flags to the configure. I have to throw a lot of them to get > enlightenment building on my system (no systemd, no pulseaudio and a > few other oddities), which also means I have to throw the > no-really-I-know-what-I-am-doing[1] flag. > > Can somebody explain in simple language what --enable-egl and > --enable-opengl do, and what their relation (if any) is? there isn't a --enable-opengl. you mean --with=opengl=full|es|none > If I throw the --enable-egl and --enable-opengl=es, I cannot unlock my > screen without dumping core. If I throw --enable-opengl=full but leave > off the --enable-egl, I have no problems. ok. the first uses egl+gles for rendering, the second will use full opengl (and thus glx in x11 - this option only works with x11). these are different opengl libraries to do rendering with egl+opengl-es are one variety. glx +opengll are another. we support these 2. egl+gles is for embedded devices and these days most desktop gpu drivers also support this. opengl+glx is full opengl on x11 (glx) only. full desktop gl for us doesnt buy us very much at all as we stick to a subset of opengl that is mostly common between egl+gles and opengl+glx. > Thanks, > Mik > > [1] No. I don't really know what I am doing. But I am not opening a > bug report and I fixed the problem myself. I am now simply trying to > understand. where is the report? do you have a backtrace for the crash? > -- > In a world of ninja v. pirate, I pilot a Gundam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
