Re: Confused between mesa and openGL
Re: Confused between mesa and openGL
- Subject: Re: Confused between mesa and openGL
- From: "Thomas 'Tom' R. Treadway III" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:29:42 -0700
What is mesa
It's a graphics library that's similar to OpenGL, except that it does
all of its rendering in software instead of offloading the rendering
to hardware.
and what is openGL?
See <http://www.opengl.org/users/about/index.html>.
How do I know which openGL libraries I have and their location.
In Apple X11, the OpenGL libraries are /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL*
I don't think X11 includes Mesa libraries. Is Mesa even necessary on
the Mac? Every Mac that can run OS X, except for the ones that use
ATI's Rage Pro, should be able to use OpenGL without Mesa.
$ head /usr/X11R6/include/GL/gl.h
/*
* Mesa 3-D graphics library
* Version: 3.4
*
* Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Brian Paul All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"),
* to deal in the Software without restriction, including without
limitation
$ ls /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Libraries/
libGL.dylib libGLImage.dylib libGLSystem.dylib libGLU.dylib
$
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