cgtuebingen / pointcloud-viewer

Efficient Large-Scale Point-Cloud Viewer based on OpenGL
http://pointcloudviewer.org
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Can it run on OSX ? #42

Closed Gatsby23 closed 2 years ago

Robert42 commented 2 years ago

Short answer

Sadly, no

Long Answer

The current version is not supported on OS X, as it depends on OpenGL's 4.5 DSA interface, while Apple has sadly decided not to support any OpenGL > 4.2.

There might exist wrappers which wrap Apple's Metal API in an OpenGL 4.5 API (as they do for OpenGL ES and Vulkan), but I am not aware of any such project.

Future

As development on this project is currently halted (I may decide to reimplement it after I am done with my current project) there won't be an OSX version the foreseeable future.