[PD] GEM on raspberry pi

[dreamer]

Perhaps have a look at glshim: https://github.com/lunixbochs/glshim

Not all GEM functions are working yet, but anyone porting to GL ES could
start there.


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Richie Cyngler <glitchpop at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reviving an old thread here. Just wondering if anyone is working on this
> port at the moment? I'd be very interested in supporting this work somehow.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>wrote:
>
>>
>> That is correct, there is presently no way to run Gem on the RPi.  There
>> was some work done on porting Gem to OpenGL ES in the past, sounds like
>> someone should revisit that since there is demand.  It would mean that Gem
>> would also run on Android and iOS.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Iain Mott wrote:
>>
>> > Sorry if this has already been answered, but is it possible to run GEM
>> > on the raspberry pi?
>> >
>> > I've just installed the Pd-0.43.3-extended-20121004.deb file from
>> >
>> http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended-0-43-3-on-raspberry-pi-raspbian-wheezy-armhf
>> >
>> > So far so good, but when I try to open a gemwin the following error
>> > occurs:
>> >
>> > "GEM: X server has no OpenGL GLX extension"
>> >
>> > Googling for info I came across this:
>> >
>> > *****
>> >
>> > GLX is an extension to the X windows server which allows GL programs to
>> > pass their commands through to the underlying renderer. On the pi there
>> > are two fundamental problems:
>> >
>> > 1) GLX is currently only designed to support OpenGL, not OpenGL ES. RPi
>> > doesn't actually support OpenGL, just OpenGL ES (1.1 and 2.0).
>> >
>> > 2) The underlying xf86-video driver needs to support GLX. The default X
>> > driver for the pi right now is the fbdev driver, which doesn't support
>> > GLX. I don't know of any drivers that are working on GLX support, but
>> > they'd have to provide some kind of translation mechanism as well to
>> > convert unsupported GL calls into their GL ES equivalents.
>> >
>> > For the foreseeable future, you're probably out of luck.
>> >
>> > *****
>> >
>> > Is that the case? Is there no way of running GEM on the raspberry pi at
>> > present?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Iain
>> >
>> >
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