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Re: Exporting an OpenGL display from a sun to a mac


Hi Charlie,

I mailed you a while back about this but I may have sent it to the wrong email address by accident. I figured out how to make this work and wrote it up on a web page for the rest of the folks in my lab to use. You may find it useful as well.
<http://www.jigo.net/techjunk/macsunx11>

Michael

On Nov 10, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Okeefe, Charlie ((Mission Systems)) wrote:

I wrote earlier asking why a Sun machine cannot export an OpenGL display to a mac. A Sun guy at my office seems to have shed some light on this:
 
> What I found in a case is that a Sun OpenGL client would interoperate with an X server that supports
> GLX version 1.3 (or higher) or GLX version 1.2 plus GLXvop_GetFBConfigSGIX protocol extension.
> According to the case, the MacOS X did not...
>
> Sun OpenGL 1.2.1 uses GLX 1.3 and Sun OpenGL 1.3 uses GLX 1.4. Mac OS 10.3 uses GLX 1.2.
> The problem is not that Sun uses a proprietary extension but that the Mac uses an old version of GLX.
>
> The problem does not happen when exporting an OpenGL display from Tru64 Unix to a Mac because
> Tru64 Unix also uses GLX 1.2.
>
> Possible solutions are compiling OpenGL from www.mesa3d.org on the Mac (or Sun?), or waiting
> until Apple upgrades their version of GLX.
 
Anyone know more about the state of Apple's GLX support? When it will support version 1.3?
 
More insight into this problem and possible solutions would be much appreciated.
 
Charlie
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