FreeGLUT Ported Natively To Wayland

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 7 April 2015 at 08:19 AM EDT. 11 Comments
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FreeGLUT, the open-source replacement to GLUT for handling system-specific setup tasks like windowing system configuration and OpenGL initialization, now is natively supported on Wayland.

Manuel Bachmann added a Wayland back-end to FreeGLUT that can be enabled at build time via the -DFREEGLUT_WAYLAND-ON cmake build system option. However, with FreeGLUT both the X11 and Wayland backends can't currently exist with the same builds.

Other initial implementations with this FreeGLUT Wayland back-end is the lack of menu support, client-side decorations not being implemented, and the game mode and window visibility states are still being worked out. Details via this Git commit.

Embedded below is a video of FreeGLUT working on Wayland with Weston.

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