What is EGL And How Can I Use It

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user366250 picture user366250 · Jun 27, 2010 · Viewed 25.1k times · Source

Can Anybody explain me what is EGL and what it does?

How can i use EGL with OpenGL-ES On Linux?

Is EGL a Layer Between Hardware And Operating System?

Answer

Richard Harrison picture Richard Harrison · Jun 27, 2010

EGL is a window system-independent equivalent to the GLX and WGL APIs, which respectively enable OpenGL support in X and Microsoft Windows. It is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system. It handles graphics context management, surface/buffer binding, and rendering synchronization and enables high-performance, accelerated, mixed-mode 2D and 3D rendering using other Khronos APIs.

EGL Architecture

There is an implementation for Mesa called EGL and covered in the Mesa EGL Wiki. Realistically you can't use XEGL / EGL,

If you're running on Linux and don't need X then look at Wayland which is a replacement server built on top of MESA.

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