Open smanders opened 8 years ago
discussion with brobeson:
MDP needs GLEW on Linux. Since GLEW is already in externpro, I was going to look into enabling it for Linux. Is that OK with you?
It's more than just enabling it - the glew project in externpro right now only copies pre-built MSW-only libraries. Ubuntu provides a package
sudo apt-get install libglew-dev
-- surely there's something similar on RHEL/CentOS? But maybe it's worth building it via externpro. I know I looked into it awhile ago and decided it wasn't trivial, so I didn't do it then.Unfortunately, I wasn't been able to find anything via yum, at least not on the dev VMs we have set up.
from @swflb:
we need version great than or equal to 1.13. for MDP we install it on our systems now.
glew 1.13.0 is being built as part of externpro on linux (see issue referenced above - 171
)
this issue will remain open until we move the msw version of glew forward to at least match the linux version -- and perhaps also build glew via externpro on both platforms (rather than using the pre-built binaries on msw)
we're currently version 1.7.0, which was released 2011.08.26 and has support for OpenGL 4.2
version 1.11.0 was released 2014.11.08 and supports OpenGL 4.5
externpro currently copies pre-built MSW-only libraries; perhaps we want to modify how we're doing this and build glew ourselves for all the platforms we support? perhaps more enticing after Solaris support is dropped...