On 11/25/05, Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Aric Cyr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > A while back I had started to work on, and mostly completed, converting > > wined3d > > to using WGL instead of directly accessing glX functions. That was a few > > months > > ago, and it was a pretty big change, but not too difficult as WGL and GLX > > are > > very similar. > > > > However, my patch is now greatly out of date thanks to the excellent work > > progressing in wined3d. I was just interested in getting some feedback on > > whether anyone thinks this is something worth me continuing to pursue, or > > just > > drop it? > > > > As I see it, there are a few merits to having wined3d on wgl instead of glx. > > The biggest one being that all the glX code won't be duplicated in multiple > > places as it is now (dlls/opengl32 and dlls/wined3d). Along with that comes > > maintainability and consistency as all glX code would only exist in one > > place > > and would be shared by all, applications and wined3d alike. Work-arounds > > for the > > various glX revisions (recently discussed glx 1.2, 1.3, etc) would also be > > localized to a single dll. > > > > Of course, on the down side, we take a hit of one extra layer of > > indirection by > > going through WGL. However as WGL/glX functions are rarely called, this > > should > > be a minimal of a performance hit. > > > > All in all I think it would be worth while, but I'd still like to hear from > > others so as not to waste (a lot!) of my time. > > If wines WGL implementation is fully implemented then it may be a good idea > switching to wgl, a > wgl implemenatation would also make debugging much easier because wined3d can > be run under windows > to isolate problems.
Wine's WGL is well implemented, and probably more correct than what is in wined3d currently (well, last time I checked anyways). > Nick Burns also started work on a wgl version of wined3d that I haven't got > around to fully > merging yet, I can send you the patch. Sure send me the patch (off list is fine). I was planning on restarting from scratch anyways, so I'd like to see what Nick had in mind and build on it. Regards, Aric -- Aric Cyr <Aric.Cyr at gmail dot com> (http://acyr.net)
