Run Open GL programs on the Raspberry Pi?

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Can the Raspberry Pi run OpenGL programs? Like GL 1.x programs, not OpenGL ES 2.x which I know it can run.

The reason I am asking, I have trouble having SFML 2 start on it.

http://superuser.com/a/210381/15489 – Prof. Falken Mar 27 '13 at 08:25 — Prof. Falken, Mar 27 '13 at 08:25

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '13 at 05:50

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You can run the Mesa software rasterizer to get desktop OpenGL support.

It'll be slow though. Really, really slow.

answered Mar 27 '13 at 05:50

genpfault

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It was _really_ slow. But it started up anyway. :-) – Prof. Falken Mar 27 '13 at 08:16
Either install the swdriver only Debian package, or force swdriver with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE environment varible. http://superuser.com/a/210381/15489 – Prof. Falken Mar 27 '13 at 08:25

Nicol Bolas · Answer 2 · 2013-03-27T08:33:48.553

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Nobody has created a desktop OpenGL implementation for Raspberry Pi hardware, for any version of desktop OpenGL. There are software implementations, but that would be of limited use on PR's relatively meager CPU.

edited Mar 27 '13 at 08:33

answered Mar 27 '13 at 01:43

Nicol Bolas

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This just needs a Mali backend for the glX wrapper afaik to work: https://github.com/lunixbochs/glshim – lunixbochs Jun 17 '13 at 02:02

Run Open GL programs on the Raspberry Pi?

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