Better error message for outdated GLSL

[Keno]

Basically a newly installed copy of Windows on my machine fails with the following. It is of course possible that some driver is not installed (wouldn't be surprise), but at least a better error message would be good.

#version 120

in vec3 vertex;
out vec4 vertpos;

uniform mat4 projectionview;

void main(){
   vertpos      = projectionview * vec4(vertex, 1.0);
   gl_Position  = vertpos;
}
ERROR: C:\Users\Keno\.julia\v0.3/GLPlot/src/shader/simple.vert
0:4(15): error: `in' qualifier in declaration of `vertex' only valid for functio
n parameters in GLSL 1.20.
0:5(17): error: `out' qualifier in declaration of `vertpos' only valid for funct
ion parameters in GLSL 1.20.

[SimonDanisch]

That means you have GLSL version 1.20, which I might be able to support, but I just didn't get around to parse things right yet... You're right, I should simply throw an error.

[Keno]

This is what I get when Windows is virtualized. I can reboot into windows later and install the latest opengl nvidia driver if that helps.

[SimonDanisch]

I'm pretty sure, that windows in the virtual box always has very low OpenGL versions, regardless of your video card. But you never know, maybe they have improved OpenGL support. If your graphic card is not too old, it should definitely help!

[SimonDanisch]

Its a pitty, as this destroys the possibility of using virtualized machines as a test environment :(

[Keno]

VMWare's graphics support isn't all that bad I think. Technically it should Support OpenGL 2.1, but as I said I might not have the drivers set up.

[SimonDanisch]

Well, my code needs at least OpenGL 3.0 with GLSL 1.30 at the moment....

[Keno]

Got it! Will reboot to windows later then and try it out.