[Development] OpenGL Support in Qt5

[Stephen Kelly]

On Monday, July 16, 2012 07:21:23 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On segunda-feira, 16 de julho de 2012 15.12.15, Sean Harmer wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2012 07:08:38 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > I'm asking for Qt 5.0: what should we tell Linux distributors to
> > > configure qtbase with? Considering what requirements qtwayland has,
> > > I think it needs to be -opengl es2.
> > > 
> > > Correct?
> > 
> > If using wayland then yes I believe so.
> > 
> > If using xcb backend then -opengl desktop works fine.
> 
> There's only one build of Qt. The choice is made at compile-time of qtbase,
> not at run-time like the platform plugin.
> 
> So everyone should use OpenGL ES 2.

Sounds like something the distros will have to decide for themselves. Possibly 
resulting in multiple packages such as qtgui-opengldesktop{,-dev} and qtgui-
opengles2{,-dev}

Thanks,

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