[maemo-developers] Fremantle OpenGL wrapper?

[From: Qole]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:14 PM, <kate.alhola at nokia.com> wrote:

>
> >________________________________________
> >From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [
> maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Qole [
> qole.tablet at gmail.com]
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:05 PM
> >To: maemo-developers
> >Subject: Fremantle OpenGL wrapper?
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm not much of a developer, but I really think it would be a good idea to
> get a couple OpenGL wrappers ready for Fremantle.
>
> What do you like the wrapper do ?  If you like to get easiest way to run
> OpenGL you can take example skeleton
> from Imagination OpenGL-ES2.0 examples. They run in Fremantle, you just
> need to compile them
> or then you can take Qt GLWidget as it is done in hellogl_es2  that is part
> of Qt4.5 source.
> I also runs nicely in Fremantle.
>
> Good thing using Qt as a wrapper is that you can use full GL but you can
> mix it with Qt UI widgets
> or QGraphicsWiew higer level drawing primitives.
>
> Kate
>
>
I am asking for a wrapper that will make it possible to port existing OpenGL
applications (mainly games) to Maemo 5+ without having to do any real
rewriting. I gave an example in my e-mail of an SDL game that uses OpenGL.

If your solutions will allow someone to port a game like Armagetron Advanced
without much effort, then that is what I'm looking for. If this means
rewriting the game / application, then that's not what I'm asking for.

A good way to know if your solution is what I'm looking for is to take the
Debian Lenny source code of Armagetron Advanced (
http://packages.debian.org/source/lenny/armagetronad) and make a Qt /
Imagination wrapper for it, then compile it to run on Fremantle. If this
takes a very long time, then this isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking
for something that would be a drop-in replacement for the OpenGL libraries
for games like Quake2 or SDL games like Armagetron.

You may think, "these aren't important, they're only games," but I would
disagree. And I'm not even a gamer.

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and imaginative person."
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