Re: mesa in /usr/ports on OpenBSD 3.3?

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:25:36PM +0100, Julian Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:11:07 -0500
> Carter <isso@highcalibersecurity.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am sure this is correct.  Just make sure your /etc/X11/XF86Config 
> > includes the line:
> > 
> >      Load       "glx", which is commented out by default.
> 
> Ok, thanks for this. I'm actually using a VNC server rather than XFree86 -
> apologies for not mentioning this, I'm new to opengl (not helped by
> http://opengl.org being down at the moment).
> 
> I've managed to get a simple test programme to work by downloading and
> building Mesa-5.0.1, and linking my programme with -lglut -lGL -lGLU
> -lpangoxft-1.0 -l Xmu. As far as I can tell, VNC doesn't have any special
> support for sending opengl prmitives as part of it compression scheme, but
> for the moment this isn't particularly important to me.
> 
> Does my use of the opengl API on VNC rather than XFree86, constitute a reason
> for reinstating Mesa in /usr/ports, or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Julian

It was already pointed out by Jose that Mesa comes with XF4. GLUT
is a separate library and can be installed from ports/graphics/glut.

// Brad