Something that "works out of the box" and "linux" is unlikely given the current state of things.
We are experiencing a rather massive attack on our computing infrastructure (including the people involved) at the moment, on a variety of levels of abstraction and it's really hard to anticipate just how much longer things will work. -- Raul On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Raul. Yeah, OpenGL SORT OF worked for me under 7 too, can't > remember details, I got too frustrated and dumped the whole thing in > disgust, I seem to remember it was working (partially) under Linux32, OKish > under Windows64 (but I don't want to have to use Windows), and I think it > worked very poorly under Linux64 (or maybe not at all, more likely). > > Now, under 8, not even the demos are present, as far as I can see. > I might try and use your addon, but time is a bit limited at the moment, > something that works out of the box would be nice... > > > > > > On 28 August 2014 12:58, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Alex Giannakopoulos >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have to say that one of my greatest frustrations with J is that a lot >> of >> > good work of the past seems to get lost in the process of updates. >> > E.g. I was really looking forward to doing some OpenGL work with J, yet >> > this does not seem possible currently (8.02 on Linux 64bit). >> >> Eh? >> >> The OpenGL interface was working fine the last time I tried to use it. >> >> Now, granted, this was J7 and more on windows than on linux. But the >> whole interface was talking directly to the *.so files. If that no >> longer works, it sounds like something has changed in Linux and we are >> not tracking those changes. (Which probably has a lot to do with >> licensing restrictions on the part of GPU vendors?) >> >> Anyways, my search engine abilities seem to be fading recently - most >> content that used to be showing up in searches seems to exist no >> longer in google, and I've not found any other search engine which >> does as good of a job as google used to do, so out of frustration I'm >> dropping a snapshot of the old versions of the addons on github. >> >> Try pulling down a copy from >> https://github.com/rdm/j701-addons/tree/master/addons/graphics/opengl/ >> and see if you can make that work? >> >> If it does, let the ISI people know so they can start distributing it >> again? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Raul >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
