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Change to use github.com/go-gl/gl for OpenGL calls #48

Closed tmc closed 10 years ago

tmc commented 10 years ago

This increases portability and plays well with others

niemeyer commented 10 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate your interest, and would love to have your help on more of this.

Unfortunately, unless I'm missing some recent development, this won't work. Using go-gl was the first thing I tried, and if you start trying to wrap things like glGenBuffers, you'll notice it fails because the symbol names available match the real function names, which differ from those expected by go-gl due to glew conventions. Historical record on it: http://goo.gl/9UYjEf

In the next few weeks, I'm also planning to move on from using the bare symbols to the ones offered by Qt since 5.1. This will increase portability significantly, and it might also help people being more conscious about which GL version they're using.

If you're interested in collaboration, please join the mailing list and let's talk.

tmc commented 10 years ago

Ah, I didn't realize that would be a problem. The examples work fine with this change. Shrug

niemeyer commented 10 years ago

Yeah, they work fine because glGenBuffers was recently dropped to reduce the linking workflow for people in other operating systems. Once we do the improvements mentioned, we'll have these additional extensions, and will have trivial portability. Again, your help is welcome.

niemeyer commented 10 years ago

Sorry, ticket referenced the wrong issue. It was aimed at #47.