Archives week 6 of 2014

So Python 3.3 and 3.4 require Visual Studio (Express) 2010 to compile extensions.  I already had my machine setup with Visual Studio Express 2008 + the platform SDK to get 32 and 64-bit compilers for Python 2.6 and 2.7, but to release for the 3.x's I needed to get the new compilers.  There is, however, ...

So Pygame based EGL + OpenGL-ES1 context works with PyOpenGL 3.1 under Kubuntu amd64 with MESA EGL/GLES. Yay.

Really do need to get a couple SD cards ordered so I can port to the Raspberry Pi too. I expect that will be a matter of just getting the proper library-names defined in the platform loading ...

PyOpenGL and PyOpenGL_accelerate 3.1.0b1 are now up on PyPI.  There's MS Windows 32 and 64-bit installers for the windows-ians. The main "features" planned for the 3.1.0 release (and available in the beta) are:

• raw wrappers generated from the ARB source XML definitions, this means that it covers a lot more extensions, including GLX, WGL, EGL ...

Booted into Windows to get the PyOpenGL-Accelerate release compiled, and started following my standard "update windows, AV definitions, etc" pre-release steps... and Windows Update failed. Lots of fail (and 3 hours of trolling through MS support and trying dozens of different fixes intended to reset/verify/cleanup Windows Update state) later I wound up with some Windows ...

So I've pretty much given up on the laptop having fglrx running properly, current Ubuntu just doesn't get fglrx, sucks, but okay, I should have stayed on LTS if I wanted a working machine.  But now LTS Kubuntu fglrx is hosed after some system update.  Every attempt to run any OpenGL program just segfaults (not ...