I'm getting kinda pissed at the strange defaults. Should I be using a
different toolkit altogether because SDL IS FOR GAMES ONLY? Given how
many bugreports and complaints there is about "Dosbox blocking
screensaver" I'm beginning to think it's SDL's fault, not mine.
Let the users control what they want, ffs, don't enable problematic
features like blocking powersave or disabling compositor by default.
Those should be a runtime option anyway, similarly to how video players
block powersaving only when *an actual video is playing*.
This was done correctly in the Find module, but here somehow not -- if
MAGNUM_TARGET_EGL is enabled, then [Windowless]GlxApplication and
GlxContext were linking to MagnumSomeContext_LIBRARY, which is EGL. Whic
is wrong. Those should always link to GLX, if it exists, and nothing if
there's just the old libGL.
A large portion of the needed changes was in the previous commit
already, this does just the remaining part, in particular ensuring EGL
is linked and SDL is told to use EGL as well -- GLFW was told so in the
previous cleanup commit already.
These two options were mutually exclusive, and both were doing the same
thing -- switching to EGL on desktop GL, or switching away from EGL on
GLES. That made all logic vastly more complicated than it should be, and
unfortunately it took me half a decade to realize that. The new logic is
significantly simpler everywhere.
As usual, the old options are still recognized by CMake on a deprecated
build (with a warning), and are still exposed both as CMake variables
and a preprocessor define. But the logic for them was quite complicated,
so I don't guarantee all cases are covered.
I also tried to clean up the dependent CMake options to allow building
GLX and WGL apps on GLES independently of whether EGL is used, but it's
quite a mess due to the limitations of CMake < 3.22. Build directories
that have the options switched randomly over a long time might start
misbehaving, but the initial build should work well.
The whole class was a bad idea, why create something that's 99% similar
to another application and has just one platform-specific workaround? Of
course it resulted in this code being completely untested and not even
built anywhere, because it served a tiny insignificant use case.
To avoid losing all the code, I did my best in attempting to merge this
into the WindowlessEglApplication. But since, again, EGL isn't
really used on any Windows platform, I can't even say it builds
properly. Maybe not even the original code built.
I wondered if I should put them into the GL/VK startup log, but
while definitely useful, they don't really have any relation to GPU
drivers. So it's just here for now.
For quite a while, setSwapInterval() was reporting that "swap interval
was ignored by the driver". Since I used to have that behavior ages ago
on a NVidia Optimus machine (where it was just *impossible* to have
VSync, imagine that!!), I assumed it was a similar wart in Mesa and
didn't bother looking into it.
It turns out, however, that calling setSwapInterval(1) may result in
SDL_GL_GetSwapInterval() returning -1 instead of 1, thus helpfully
enabling late-swap behavior for me. Since -1 != -1, the code treated
that the same as if SDL_GL_GetSwapInterval() returned 0 (which was the
case with NV Optimus having broken VSync), but it's not an error in
fact.
Similar to the change done in Corrade, see the commit for details:
878624ac36
Wow, this is probably the most backwards-compatibility code I've ever
written. Can't wait until I can drop all that.
Which allows to get rid of a now-unneeded ArrayView include in the
header. Also, now that we're returning a StringView, it's useful to
have the view always null-terminated. In SDL2 and Emscripten it was
already like that, GLFW needed a minor change.
Certain Clang-based IDEs (CLion) "emulate" a compiler by inheriting all
its defines, which means one gets __clang__ defined but also __GNUC__
set to 11 or whatever, breaking all these assumptions.
While branching on a compiler is rather common, checking a particular
compiler version should be needed only rarely. Thus minimize use of such
macros to make them easier to grep for.
Spent several hours trying to figure out why magnum-player built against
static SDL (which uses the flags documented here) was hellishly laggy.
Didn't expect it was due to timers missing. OTOH, why SDL does even
allow itself to be built in such an unusable state?
It limits the support for CMake 3.12+, but it's much less verbose and I
don't expect people to use ancient CMake versions with IDEs like Xcode
or VS anyway, so this should be fine.
Similar change was done for applications long ago. They're built always
as static (as they're tiny) and original expectation was that they would
get linked just to the final executable and not any shared library, thus
not needing the -fPIC. But real-world experience was different, so I
added that. The same needs to be done for (also static) context
libraries, yet somehow I forgot until now.
Got done in 7ced4740fd and
f3fc17e2b0 for CGL and OpenAL, but ever
since Travis decided we're not worthy of using their services, I didn't
have a chance to check the warning in the iOS build. Now I have.
Probably a leftover from when these dependencies were handled in a
much shittier way? For as long as I remember, enabling WITH_GL_INFO
always enabled WITH_GL and WITH_WINDOWLESSWHATEVERAPPLICATION
implicitly.
The so-far-perfect impression of GLFW being a heaven to integrate just
got a bunch of tiny cracks. Good thing it's being fixed for the next
version, although I'd personally disable the docs as well.
Vladimír Vondruš