emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer

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user2118445 picture user2118445 · Mar 23, 2013 · Viewed 47.5k times · Source

What do these error messages mean from the Android emulator?

Starting emulator for AVD 'AVD'
Failed to create Context 0x3005
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
emulator: WARNING: Could not initialize OpenglES emulation, using software renderer.
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB
could not get wglGetExtensionsStringARB

Answer

Gerd picture Gerd · Sep 29, 2013

While starting the emulator from the command line - $ emulator64-arm -avd GalaxyS2 - I got a similiar (and maybe/hopefully) related message:

emulator: ERROR: Could not load OpenGLES emulation library: lib64OpenglRender.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I found this file lib64OpenglRender.so through locate. It's in the tools/lib-subdirectory of the android-sdk-linux-dir.

So I created /etc/ld.so.conf.d/android_stuff.conf (you could of course add the following line to another *.conf-file in that directory) and put one line in:

path_to_android-sdk-linux_directory/tools/lib

Then call the configuration-tool: ldconfig (just without any parameter) and (at least in my case) the error-message went away.

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