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FlorianRhiem / pyGLFW

Python bindings for GLFW
MIT License
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glfw is actually easy to install on most Linuxes #43

Closed almarklein closed 4 years ago

almarklein commented 4 years ago

The readme says that Linux users must compile GLFW from source, which might put people off. At least on Ubuntu it's just apt install libglfw3 (or libglfw3-wayland).

FlorianRhiem commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the suggestion, this is especially useful now that there are wheels for Linux. I've updated the text and also removed the reference from macOS to Linux, instead duplicating the small paragraph and using DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in the macOS version.

almarklein commented 4 years ago

now that there are wheels for Linux.

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FlorianRhiem commented 4 years ago

Yeah, they aren't "proper" manylinux2010 wheels as GLFW depends on more X11 libraries than manylinux2010 allows, but they're close enough that users on a system with an X11-based desktop environment should be fine without installing GLFW themselves. Of course that doesn't handle Wayland, osmesa, etc, but it's a good step in the right direction and makes the installation fairly easy for a lot of Linux users.