Prima extension for OpenGL

Works on win32, cygwin, and x11

Dependencies

Ubuntu: apt-get install libgl-dev

Strawberry perl, if freeglut is not included (5.38): http://prima.eu.org/download/freeglut-win64.zip

Optional dependencies

cpan OpenGL::Modern

Howto

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
perl examples/icosahedron.pl

Where

http://github.com/dk/Prima-OpenGL

MacOSX

Compile Prima as perl Makefile.PL WITH_HOMEBREW=0. This is a horrible hack.

OpenGL on MacOS can be used in two unrelated configurations - either native or Mesa/homebrew. The native supports Metal fine, but it requires compilation with X11 libs found in /opt/X11 . If compiling with homebrew X11 libs, then the native layer cannot be used, only Mesa software emulation can.

Prima::OpenGL would only work if both Prima and OpenGL::Modern are compiled with either native or Mesa. By default though, OpenGL::Modern uses native OpenGL, while Prima uses Mesa (if found), because native X11 libs come without support of modern libraries like harfbuzz and gtk. This module's Makefile.PL tries to detect if these two are compiled in different modes, and warn about it.

To compile Prima with the native X11 libs, configure it as perl Makefile.PL WITH_HOMEBREW=0. This will though disable some libraries and will degrade the toolkit.

There is currently no way to compile OpenGL::Modern with Mesa, however I've filed a PR that allows configuring it as env WITH_HOMEBREW=1 perl Makefile.PL.

There is neither a way to configure OpenGL (pogl) perl module with Mesa.

Author

Dmitry Karasik, 2024