[vtk-developers] OSMessa Build Failures

[David Gobbi]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Kevin H. Hobbs <hobbsk at ohio.edu> wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 06:09 AM, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
>> There was a big change in OSMesa yesterday that is a probable
>> cause for the failures on my OSMesaDevel builds.
>>
>
> I reported this issue to the Mesa developers.
>
> Brian Paul asked me "Can you tell me what the parameters are for your
> OSMesaCreateContext() and OSMesaMakeCurrent() calls (in particular the
> image format/type)?"
>
> How do I get at this information?

I grepped the code, it returned two files:

vtkOSOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx

The calls were these:

contextId = OSMesaCreateContext(GL_RGBA, NULL);
OSMesaMakeCurrent(contextId, window,  GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, xsize, ysize);

 - David