[Scilab-Dev] JOGL java OpenGL library

[Clément David]

Hello Johan,

Yep the patch is already in review [1] however we should rebuild jogl2 to ship it within our
thirdparties. Currently to build Scilab for yourself with the latest jogl2 version from your
distribution, apply it before building.

[1]: https://codereview.scilab.org/#/c/17530/

Thanks,

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Clément

Le mercredi 25 juillet 2018 à 22:09 -0300, Johan Wesselink a écrit :
> I build scilab from the scilab branch master under lubuntu. 
> This went well except for the JOGL2 library.
> 
> I noticed that almost all modern distros come with its own version of this library.
> The library is currently redistributed. However, there is a library problem in which
> a dynamic library doesn't return the correct string. If I remember correctly this is the latest
> MesagGL library. The redistributed version is no longer compatible with the latest mesa library. 
> 
> This is a well known problem and all distributions package scilab using the
> new version.
> They are aware that search path for the library in Java is modfied from 
> javax.opengl to com.jogamp.
> Every distribution uses a patch which patches a set of java files and adapts the configure.ac
> 
> I am very curious if there is an incentive to integrate this modification into the current 
> master branch and link to a new version of JOGL2. This will make it much easier to
> compile scilab from scratch.
> 
> I do this because I am interested on working on XCOS.. This is a very cool tool
> which still needs a lot of work. 
> 
> Sincerely
> Johan Wesselink
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