Using OpenGL Without X-Window System

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user366250 picture user366250 · Jun 14, 2010 · Viewed 17k times · Source

How to OpenGL on Linux Platform Without X-Window System, can I send OpenGL Graphics Directly to Framebuffer Device?

There Is Project Named DirectFB (Direct FrameBuffer). With DirectFB We can do this but DirectFB needs for driver for each hardware and I want to user a graphic card that only have Linux driver.

Answer

Fady Mohamed Othman picture Fady Mohamed Othman · Sep 7, 2011

This is how i did it in my ubuntu 11.04 in detail: 1- Install the dependencies using the command: 

sudo apt-get install xutils-dev libpciaccess-dev x11proto-dri2-dev x11proto-gl-dev libxdamage-dev libxfixes-dev

2- The mesa library needs libdrm version >= 2.4.24 which is not available in the ubuntu 11.04 repository (older version is available) so you have to download the source and build it using the following commands:

./configure
make
make install

3-Download mesa library and then compile it using the following commands: ./configure --prefix=install_directory

make realclean
make linux-fbdev
sudo make install

be careful when you choose the install_directory so that you don't overwrite the system's mesa library. after that compile your application using the options : -lGL -lOSMesa -ldl -L'install_directory/lib' -I'install_directory/include'

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