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silvercoder70

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Status of GLScene for Lazarus (Linux)
« on: January 21, 2025, 11:10:32 pm »
What is the status of GLScene for Lazarus? And then for Linux?

My setup is Linux Mint, Lazarus (latest). I do have a Windows in a VM and would prefer not to have to touch that.

I checked out a couple of the threads in relation to this and problems people encountered. I tried the one downloaded via the Online Package Manager (1.0?) and that does not build/install. And I know there are other versions out there. But my questions are simple (?):

Is there a known working version of GLScene for Lazarus?
Is there a known working version of GLScene for Lazarus that works on Linux?
What version is it?

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Re: Status of GLScene for Lazarus (Linux)
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2025, 02:45:18 am »
GLScene is an interesting project. I haven't really tested it seriously. But I had bad experience with it. If you want to know more, read here:

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,52088.msg383311.html#msg383311

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Re: Status of GLScene for Lazarus (Linux)
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2025, 02:47:39 am »
Is there a known working version of GLScene for Lazarus that works on Linux?
How can there be ?

The SF project page states: "GLScene Engine for Delphi & C++Builder VCL Windows 32/64"

Now, there is some work done to compile with Lazarus but afaik that is all there is.

fwiw: I've managed to be able to find 6 related github and/or sf pages and other websites mentioning glscene (or lzscene and none of them re able to clear up any questions, there is no proper versioning so all is left to the imagination of the user. Even our own ccr is a mess for this project. I personally wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole (with all respect to the original author because on windows it was a wonderful project).

See also this post from WP (it might be that you need to modify the link manually because the forum software decided by reason of insanity to add/remove the session id)
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Re: Status of GLScene for Lazarus (Linux)
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2025, 08:51:42 am »
I had found different versions online (some forked etc) and before I went down to the road of trying them all out (not really) I wondered if there was any "recommended" version. While there might be information on one page about support, when you get to that page it reads differently. Hence the question.
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