Any movement on one of these solutions ending up in master and 18.1.x anytime soon?
On Thu, 31 May 2018 at 05:09, Kyle Brenneman <kyle.brenne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/29/2018 12:04 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 09:54 -0700, Dylan Baker wrote: > >> Quoting Adam Jackson (2018-05-29 06:50:46) > >>> GL_LIB expands to GLX_mesa, but applications should not link against > >>> that. -lGL is never wrong, just hardcode it. > >> Actually.... There is this really stupid option in the autotools build > called > >> --gl-lib-name. We should remove that. > >> > >> Emil and I had also discussed that glvnd should provide the gl.pc file > when used > >> instead of mesa. It appears he never got around to that, but it seems > like a > >> useful thing to do. > > https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd/pull/86 > > > > Branch is a bit stale but better than reinventing everything. > > > > Part of the reason I didn't get much further on that is the question of > > distributing the _headers_. It would be a bit awkward if glvnd provided > > the library you link to but not the headers defining its interface - > > though, I guess no more awkward than the current situation. At any rate > > glvnd doesn't install any, and there's no way to generate <GL/gl.h> > > from the Khronos scripts at the moment (it's assumed to be a platform > > implementation detail, and the version in Mesa is just handcoded > > history). > > > > - ajax > > > Yeah, the headers versus libraries question is what makes it awkward. > Libglvnd provides the libraries that an application links against, but > the header files are basically from the Khronos repository. Treating > libglvnd as the source for the libraries and the Khronos tree as the > source for the headers would seem to be the cleanest option, but the > pkg-config files would have to include the paths to both. > > Now that I think about it, though, since the Khronos registry is on > Github now instead of SVN, maybe a git submodule would work? > > -Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev > -- Stuart Young (aka Cefiar)
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