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aldacron
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 Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: You might be interested |
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I'm in the middle of doing some conversions for use in a future project. I'm considering requesting a project here. It's a set of modules for OpenGL, DX, and misc. libs (libpng, libjpeg, perhaps oggvorbis stuff). I know some of that already has been done by others, but I'm structuring these so that the shared libs are loaded dynamically rather than requiring a link to the implib.
If you guys are interested in such a beast, that would certainly motivate me to open a project here sooner  . I'm nearly finished with the Windows opengl implementation, and will be working on DInput next. |
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larsivi
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| I believe that this should be of interest to Sinbad. Does this mean that all of the gl functions will be used through function pointers and those horrible PFNGLSOMEFUNCTION names? (not necessarily a problem since they probably can be aliased). |
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JJR
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 2:10 pm Post subject: Re: You might be interested |
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| aldacron wrote: | I'm in the middle of doing some conversions for use in a future project. I'm considering requesting a project here. It's a set of modules for OpenGL, DX, and misc. libs (libpng, libjpeg, perhaps oggvorbis stuff). I know some of that already has been done by others, but I'm structuring these so that the shared libs are loaded dynamically rather than requiring a link to the implib.
If you guys are interested in such a beast, that would certainly motivate me to open a project here sooner . I'm nearly finished with the Windows opengl implementation, and will be working on DInput next. |
Please do! I think this would be a very good thing. I've been frustrated by the need to scrounge around for libraries. There are more than one D opengl ports of various degrees of completion... It would be nice to have a standard dsource set of these libraries so people wouldn't have to always hunt for them. Two other ports I think should get svn'ed here are the glfw port and the glee port. And most definitely sdl... |
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csauls
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Yes this would very likely become useful for us! I hadn't even started to consider what port we would end up using for our GL/DX bindings, and I would like to see GL made the default/preferred binding -- which I believe is OGRE's philosophy as well, so it'd be good to have a GL lib lined up.
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aldacron
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| Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| larsivi wrote: | | Does this mean that all of the gl functions will be used through function pointers and those horrible PFNGLSOMEFUNCTION names? (not necessarily a problem since they probably can be aliased). |
Actually no I'm avoiding all Win32isms, with the exception of the wgl module. All function pointers are aliased to the approriate gl* function name.
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There are more than one D opengl ports of various degrees of completion... It would be nice to have a standard dsource set of these libraries so people wouldn't have to always hunt for them.
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That and the fact that the existing ports all require an implib are what motivated me to start this. When using DLLs, I have adopted the habit of *never* linking an implib with the main executable. It's then impossible to handle missing DLLs gracefully, and the user is subjected to that Windows popup 'A required file yadda, yadda". So these modules will all be dynamically loaded, without the need for the implibs.
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Yes this would very likely become useful for us!
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Alrighty then. I'll pop off a request to get a project opened up here. |
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aldacron
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| woohoo! Derelict is the new project name. I'll get the OpenGL code checked in as soon as I figure out how to use Subversion. |
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