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Re: Cygwin and vertex/pixel programs
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Suresh Venkatasubramanian wrote:
> i have an nvidia graphics card that doesn't yet have linux drivers.
> hence, I was considering using cygwin to write my code in windows.
>
Really? I thought that all Nvidia cards capable of pixel/vertex shaders
had Linux driver support.
> Now, from what i understand, cygwin allows me to link to the native
> windows opengl dlls, is that correct?
>
Yes.
> And therefore, does that mean that access to the latest
> opengl dlls is independent of cygwin (i just have to download the latest
> ones) ?
>
I guess so. This question is not clear.
> The reason this is of concern is because my work typically makes
> use of the newer extensions like vertex programs and fragment programs,
> (the ARB_fragment_program and ARB_vertex_program extensions etc)
> and I would need to be able to use those.
>
They work.
Please see /usr/doc/opengl-1.1.0/README.txt. Note that some of that info
is out of date. In particular, if you are using gcc 3.3.1, you will want
to move /usr/include/GL/[gl.h glu.h] out of the way so you get the ones in
/usr/include/w32api/GL instead. Also, you will need to include GL/glext.h
(which comes from there too), and ignore the references to GL_VERSION_*.
An updated OpenGL package for Cygwin is in the works to fix these issues
(I think).
A second note. You mentioned Linux, which would imply that you expect to
code using GLX. Xfree86 under Cygwin does not currently use a pass
through mechanism to the native OpenGL DLLs. Instead, it uses Mesa
software rendering (not HW accelerated), and the previous
document/comments do not apply. If you use this method, use standard GLX
includes/libs ie. -I /usr/X11R6/include -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lGLU -lGL.
You must use Windows wgl windowing code (ie. no X) to get acceleration and
native OpenGL DLLs.
HTH, and wasn't too confusing.
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