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update the glew version #18

Open smanders opened 8 years ago

smanders commented 8 years ago

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...

smanders commented 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.

smanders commented 8 years ago

from @swflb:

we need version great than or equal to 1.13. for MDP we install it on our systems now.

swflb commented 8 years ago

fyi, some of this work was done that you might just be able to use

smanders commented 6 years ago

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)