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Neil Roberts 231be91fb0 Combine _cogl_context_check_gl_version and update_features into one
The _cogl_context_check_gl_version function is meant to be called once
Cogl has a GL context so that it can check whether the context found
is supported by Cogl. However, only the stub winsys was calling this
and it was doing it before Cogl had a chance to retrieve the function
pointer for glString so it would just crash. This patch combines the
two functions into one so that _cogl_context_update_features returns a
gboolean and a GError. Then it can just check the context itself.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654440

Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-18 15:41:35 +01:00
build releasing: Fix the check for an even micro version number 2011-07-01 16:47:42 +01:00
cogl Combine _cogl_context_check_gl_version and update_features into one 2011-07-18 15:41:35 +01:00
cogl-pango Dynamically load the GL or GLES library 2011-07-11 12:57:38 +01:00
doc dist: give 2.0 manual unique DOC_MODULE name 2011-07-11 15:40:02 +01:00
examples Remove cogl_context_set_default API 2011-07-11 14:07:02 +01:00
po Add some generated files to the gitignore list 2011-07-13 14:41:59 +01:00
.gitignore Add some generated files to the gitignore list 2011-07-13 14:41:59 +01:00
.vimrc misc: Add a .vimrc file 2011-05-17 15:24:54 +01:00
autogen.sh build: Allow to compile a git checkout without gtk-doc 2011-05-12 11:45:25 +01:00
cogl.doap Adds an initial cogl.doap file 2011-05-06 12:12:13 +01:00
config-custom.h configure: Force #undef of 'near' and 'far' on Windows 2011-06-14 12:14:02 +01:00
configure.ac configure: Expose COGL_HAS_GLX_SUPPORT publicly 2011-07-13 19:06:19 +01:00
COPYING Adds a COPYING file 2011-05-05 21:27:11 +01:00
Makefile.am Ensure we use --enable-profile during make distcheck 2011-06-14 17:09:56 +01:00
NEWS NEWS: Update for the 1.7.2 release 2011-07-01 16:47:42 +01:00
README.in README: Fix a tiny typo 2011-07-04 14:37:11 +01:00

README for Cogl @COGL_VERSION@
===============================================================================

Note: This file is delimited with -- markers so it is possible to split
sections out for other purposes, such as for release notes.

--
DESCRIPTION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cogl is a small open source library for using 3D graphics hardware to draw
pretty pictures. The API departs from the flat state machine style of
OpenGL and is designed to make it easy to write orthogonal components that
can render without stepping on each others toes.

As well as aiming for a nice API, we think having a single library as opposed
to an API specification like OpenGL has a few advantages too; like being
able to paper over the inconsistencies/bugs of different OpenGL
implementations in a centralized place, not to mention the myriad of OpenGL
extensions. It also means we are in a better position to provide utility
APIs that help software developers since they only need to be implemented
once and there is no risk of inconsistency between implementations.

Having other backends, besides OpenGL, such as drm, Gallium or D3D are
options we are interested in for the future.

--
REQUIREMENTS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cogl currently only requires:

  • GLib ≥ @GLIB_REQ_VERSION@
  • OpenGL ≥ 1.3 (or 1.2 + multitexturing), or OpenGL ES 2.0 (or 1.1)
  • GLX, AGL, WGL or an EGL implementation

Cogl also has optional dependencies:

  • GDK-Pixbuf ≥ @GDK_PIXBUF_REQ_VERSION@
     - for image loading
  • Cairo ≥ @CAIRO_REQ_VERSION@
     - for debugging texture atlasing (debug builds only)

The optional Cogl Pango library requires:
  • Cairo ≥ @CAIRO_REQ_VERSION@
  • PangoCairo ≥ @PANGOCAIRO_REQ_VERSION@

On X11, Cogl depends on the following extensions

  • XComposite ≥ @XCOMPOSITE_REQ_VERSION@
  • XDamage
  • XExt
  • XFixes ≥ @XFIXES_REQ_VERSION@

When running with OpenGL, Cogl requires at least version 1.3
or 1.2 with the multitexturing extension. However to build Cogl
you will need the latest GL headers which can be obtained from:

  http://www.khronos.org

If you are building the API reference you will also need:

  • GTK-Doc ≥ @GTK_DOC_REQ_VERSION@

If you are building the additional documentation you will also need:

  • xsltproc
  • jw (optional, for generating PDFs)

If you are building the Introspection data you will also need:

  • GObject-Introspection ≥ @GI_REQ_VERSION@

GObject-Introspection is available from:

  git://git.gnome.org/gobject-introspection

If you want support for profiling Cogl you will also need:

  • UProf ≥ @UPROF_REQ_VERSION@

UProf is available from:

  git://github.com/rib/UProf.git

--
DOCUMENTATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The API references for the latest stable release are available at:

   http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl/stable/

The experimental 2.0 API can be found here:

   http://docs.clutter-project.org/docs/cogl-2.0-experimental/stable/

   Note: The conflicting "stable" at the end refers to the fact
   to overall Cogl release status, not the documentation specifically.

--
LICENSE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Most of Cogl is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License, version 2.1 or (at your option) later. Some files are licensed under
more permissive licenses MIT or BSD style licenses though so please see
individual files for details.

--
BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please refer to the INSTALL document.

--
BUGS
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Please report bugs here:

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=clutter

You will need a Bugzilla account.

Please include the following in bug reports:

  • what system you're running Cogl on;
  • which version of Cogl you are using;
  • which version of GLib and OpenGL (or OpenGL ES) you are using;
  • which video card and which drivers you are using, including output of
    glxinfo and xdpyinfo (if applicable);
  • how to reproduce the bug.

If you cannot reproduce the bug with one of the tests that come with
Cogl's source code, it can help a lot to include a small test case
displaying the bad behaviour.

If the bug exposes a crash, the exact text printed out and a stack trace
obtained using gdb are greatly appreciated.

--
CONTRIBUTING
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The CODING_STYLE file describes the coding style we use throughout Cogl,
please try your best to conform to this style because the consistency
really helps keep the code maintainable.

We can accept contributions in several ways:
  • Either as patches attached to bugs on bugzilla
      - For this you may be interested in using git-bz.

        See http://git.fishsoup.net/man/git-bz.html for details
  • You can email us patches
      - For this we recommend using git-send-email

  • You can create a remote branch and ask us to pull from that for more
    substantial changes.
      - For this we recommend using github.

Ideally standalone patches should be created using git format-patch since
that makes it easiest to import the patch with a commit message into a
git repository.