Bug#597019: libgl1-mesa-dev: missing static library (libGL.a)
2010/9/16 Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>:
> I'm leaning towards considering libgl1-mesa-swx11-dev shipping libGL.a a
> mistake rather than libgl1-mesa-dev not shipping one.
Why, may I ask? Because there are multiple implementations of libGL?
> The downside is that the wrapper becomes specific to the libGL linked
> statically, whereas a dlopen based wrapper would work with any libGL
> conforming to the libGL ABI. Surely the stub generation can be automated
> at least to some degree, maybe the Mesa glapi scripts can be (ab)used
> for that.
Yes, I did end up writing a stub generator, since I was planning to
for the final project anyway. Having the static library would simply
have been more convenient for development & testing.
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