Is it useful to have a pvserver binary that supports both GLX and OSMesa? Usually an environment that requires pvserver osmesa doesn't have X11 installed, so you wouldn't want a binary with dependencies on X11.
Pat On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit < [email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. Although I am not sure if the mesa developers simply mean > that you can build libGL and libOSMesa at the same time (which is > indeed possible). But worth a try. I will test it out with the latest > mesa and get back to the list. I am positive this didn't work with the > 7.* series. > > Utkarsh > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kevin H. Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/18/2012 10:49 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote: > >> So we have onscreen and offscreen rendering and what type of offscreen > >> rendering is used depends on whether we built with OSMesa. That was > >> the case for the longest time. Now, with Mesa 7.9, Mesa folks decided > >> that applications could no longer link against libOSMesa and libGL at > >> the same time. That means that we can no longer support onscreen and > >> offscreen with OSMesa in the same build of ParaView > >> (http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D). Of course, if someone > >> has ideas on overcoming this issue, I'm all ears. > > > > > > There has been some chatter on the Mesa developers list that sounds like > > this may be fixed. > > > > 1. The mesa build system underwent a _major_ overhaul. > > 2. building glapi as a shared object sounds like it _might_ overcome the > > mess that involved hidden/duplicate symbols, needed by both GL and > OSMesa. > > 3. Then there's this resolved bug: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6980 that seems to say go > > ahead "-lGL -lOSMesa" > > > > I'll give it a try again. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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