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Re: Which version(s) of OpenGL does JOGL use and how does it work exactly? (Profiles)

Posted by Sven Gothel on Jul 14, 2011; 10:34am
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Which-version-s-of-OpenGL-does-JOGL-use-and-how-does-it-work-exactly-Profiles-tp3160603p3168727.html

On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:27:16 AM Sven Gothel wrote:

> On Thursday, July 14, 2011 04:16:38 AM s3a [via jogamp] wrote:
> >
> > gouessej: I like prepackaged versions since I do not have to worry about
> > their versioning and updates and in Debian there are security updates.
> >
> > Demoscene Passivist: Thanks.
> >
> > Sven Gothel: I still want to use JOGL 1.1.1 but I am now learning it in such
> > a way that I will learn OpenGL 2.0 (and 2.1?) BUT only the features that are
> > not deprecated. I'm really happy that you told me Mesa is reaching 3.0
> > compatibility because I was trying to find out. Thanks also for the bunch of
> > links. The if(isGL3 ... ) stuff was also something I liked to see :). It
> > seems to me I can only get the code through git which sucks for me because
> > I'm not even in University yet and I am kind of going through a
> > "Frankenstein education" since I'm learning this on my own just because I
> > feel like it. I suppose I'm going to have to read on git. I should learn it
> > anyway (and I will soon-ish) since I'm going into Software Engineering (that
> > and I also want to learn it because I like computer stuff in general) but
> > for the immediate present, are there any JOGL rc2 builds for Windows?
>
> On the jogamp.org web page, there is a ling to RC2 buils, i.e. ZIP:
>     http://jogamp.org/deployment/webstart/archive/
>
> You would need gluegen and jogl, maybe the demos ..
>   http://jogamp.org/deployment/webstart/archive/gluegen-2.0-b20-20110302-windows-amd64.7z
>   http://jogamp.org/deployment/webstart/archive/jogl-2.0-b23-20110303-windows-amd64.7z
>   etc
>
> (source code is avail there as well, etc)
>
> http://jogamp.org/wiki/index.php/Jogamp_Versioning_and_Releases
>

just aggregated latest autobuilds (today):
  http://jogamp.org/deployment/archive/master/gluegen_372-joal_176-jogl_408-jocl_370/archive/

have fun ..

~Sven