hardware accelerated OpenGL & Cygwin-XFree ?

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

You are welcome to contribute an OpenGL driver which would be hardware
accelerated on Windows using wGL.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-
> owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Rolf Schneider
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 5:56 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: hardware accelerated OpenGL & Cygwin-XFree ?
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to migrate a fairly complex application from IRIX/Linux to
> bloody "windows" using Cygwin-XFree. My app. makes extensive use of
> OpenGL in several different windows. I assume OpenGL in Cygwin-XFree
> means "MESA". Unfortunately, a software implementation of OpenGL isn't
> fast enough to drive my application.
> 
> Hmm, would it be possible to configure XFree, so that Window's OpenGl
> libs/drivers are being used instead of MESA? Since Window's OpenGL
> drivers will almost certianly be hardware accelerated, my application
> would become very fast...
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
>     Rolf