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+ The Mesa 3D Graphics Library +
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Off-screen Rendering

-Mesa's off-screen rendering interface is used for rendering into -user-allocated blocks of memory. +Mesa's off-screen interface is used for rendering into user-allocated memory +without any sort of window system or operating system dependencies. That is, the GL_FRONT colorbuffer is actually a buffer in main memory, rather than a window on your display. -There are no window system or operating system dependencies. -One potential application is to use Mesa as an off-line, batch-style renderer.

-The OSMesa API provides three basic functions for making off-screen +The OSMesa API provides three basic functions for making off-screen renderings: OSMesaCreateContext(), OSMesaMakeCurrent(), and OSMesaDestroyContext(). See the Mesa/include/GL/osmesa.h header for more information about the API functions.

-There are several examples of OSMesa in the progs/osdemos/ -directory. +The OSMesa interface may be used with any of three software renderers:

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  1. llvmpipe - this is the high-performance Gallium LLVM driver +
  2. softpipe - this it the reference Gallium software driver +
  3. swrast - this is the legacy Mesa software rasterizer +
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Deep color channels

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-For some applications 8-bit color channels don't have sufficient -precision. -OSMesa supports 16-bit and 32-bit color channels through the OSMesa interface. -When using 16-bit channels, channels are GLushorts and RGBA pixels occupy -8 bytes. -When using 32-bit channels, channels are GLfloats and RGBA pixels occupy -16 bytes. +There are several examples of OSMesa in the mesa/demos repository.

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-Before version 6.5.1, Mesa had to be recompiled to support exactly -one of 8, 16 or 32-bit channels. -With Mesa 6.5.1, Mesa can be compiled for either 8, 16 or 32-bit channels -and render into any of the smaller size channels. -For example, if Mesa's compiled for 32-bit channels, you can also render -16 and 8-bit channel images. -

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Building OSMesa

-To build Mesa/OSMesa for 16 and 8-bit color channel support: +Configure and build Mesa with something like: + 

-      make realclean
-      make linux-osmesa16
+meson builddir -Dosmesa=gallium -Dgallium-drivers=swrast -Ddri-drivers=[] -Dvulkan-drivers=[] -Dprefix=$PWD/builddir/install
+ninja -C builddir install

-To build Mesa/OSMesa for 32, 16 and 8-bit color channel support: -

-      make realclean
-      make linux-osmesa32
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+Make sure you have LLVM installed first if you want to use the llvmpipe driver. +

-You'll wind up with a library named libOSMesa16.so or libOSMesa32.so. -Otherwise, most Mesa configurations build an 8-bit/channel libOSMesa.so library -by default. +When the build is complete you should find:

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+$PWD/builddir/install/lib/libOSMesa.so  (swrast-based OSMesa)
+$PWD/builddir/install/lib/gallium/libOSMsea.so  (gallium-based OSMesa)
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-If performance is important, compile Mesa for the channel size you're -most interested in. +Set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to $PWD/builddir/install to use the libraries

-If you need to compile on a non-Linux platform, copy Mesa/configs/linux-osmesa16 -to a new config file and edit it as needed. Then, add the new config name to -the top-level Makefile. Send a patch to the Mesa developers too, if you're -inclined. +When you link your application, link with -lOSMesa

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