Re: mxe-octave status

[Philip Nienhuis]

PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> On 22-Oct-2017 2:39 AM, "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/21/2017 04:58 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
>         Results with a --disable-system-opengl32 mxe-octave build:
>
>         I can confirm the crash on a PC with older Intel card (with the
>         default Windows opengl32.dll) when removing / renaming the
>         Octave-supplied (mesa-)opengl32.dll. Octave works fine there
>         with the mesa-openg32.dll
>
>
>     OK, thanks for testing.
>
>     I think we now have a good way to provide OpenGL based graphics when
>     the OpenGL implementation provided by the system causes trouble.
>     Getting LLVM to build for Windows so we can have the llvmpipe
>     renderer will improve performance, but at least it works now.
>
>
> I am wondering whether angle library can be used in windows. Angle
> library translates opengl calls to directx calls. Qt and Chromium are
> prominent users of angle.

Yeah I read about angle as it was mentioned in one of the links I 
reported in my earlier posts in this thread.
Someone will have to dive into it; it'll introduce yet additional 
dependencies while the windows installer is already so big. And maybe 
there are license issues? As regards GPL, DirectX/Direct3D is a "system 
library" I suppose. But we'd have to avoid the proprietary SDK stuff.

Anyway a good idea to keep angle in mind, thanks.

P.