WinAPI for druntime and OpenGL for deimos.

[Dmitry Olshansky]

11/25/2012 2:48 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan пишет:
> DerelictGL is flawed. It uses OpenGL32.dll, which is deliberately nerfed
> by Microsoft.

Old tale back when OpenGL was often just software rendered in part or as 
a whole.

> the wglGetProcAddress gets the functions pointers, which
> are unavailable from OpenGL32.dll and Derelict doesn't use it.
>

Not sure how you've come to this conclusion. Did you try it at all?
For one thing - it does pick up extensions (via wglGetProcAddress) from 
your vendor's specific opengl driver. There is no such thing as getting 
extensions 'from OpenGL32.dll'.

wglGetProcAddress
is present in OpenGL32.dll
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374386(v=vs.85).aspx

I've used extensions like GL_EXT_* with Derelict just fine.

HINT: opengl32.dll's description OpenGL CLIENT DLL. Implied host is 
inside the video driver your vendor provides.

>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
> <mailto:dmitry.olsh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     11/24/2012 9:34 PM, Gor Gyolchanyan пишет:
>
>         I disagree. One is free to (and I'm going to) make a module which
>         implements the functions automatically and has them
>         wglGetProcAddress.
>         This makes using OpenGL a lot easier.
>
>
>
>     Well, last time I checked that was Derelict. We'd better advertise
>     it as a go-to project for OpenGL.
>
>
>
>         On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Jakob Ovrum
>         <jakobovrum at gmail.com <mailto:jakobovrum at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:jakobovrum at gmail.com <mailto:jakobovrum at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On Friday, 23 November 2012 at 21:15:00 UTC, Walter Bright
>         wrote:
>
>                  On 11/23/2012 3:46 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>
>                      I hope the deimos folks make a repo soon, so that
>         people can
>                      use those modules
>                      as soon as possible, because I'll finish
>         translating them today.
>
>
>         https://github.com/D-____Programming-Deimos/OpenGL
>         <https://github.com/D-__Programming-Deimos/OpenGL>
>
>                  <https://github.com/D-__Programming-Deimos/OpenGL
>         <https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/OpenGL>>
>
>
>              This repo is a poor idea. Statically linking OpenGL is not the
>              recommended way of linking OpenGL in a given application.
>
>              Then again, Deimos is a poor idea to begin with, the only
>         benefit is
>              the unified source package name "deimos", which doesn't
>         warrant the
>              D-Programming-Deimos Github organization at all. A list of
>         links to
>              repositories following the Deimos guidelines would not only be
>              sufficient, but much more efficient.
>
>
>
>
>         --
>         Bye,
>         Gor Gyolchanyan.
>
>
>
>     --
>     Dmitry Olshansky
>
>
>
>
> --
> Bye,
> Gor Gyolchanyan.


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky