Use libgl-devel to install OpenGL loader on Linux instead of CDTs #57
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This should be part of a much bigger cleanup of all the places in which we use OpenGL-related CDTs in
ami-iit
androbotology
, but let's start from somewhere.In a nutshell, now conda-forge packages the so-called
libglvnd
library, that is the loader library linked by the programs and that then loads the OpenGL libraries, so it is now sufficient to just installlibgl-devel
(orlibegl-devel
or other similar packages, depending on the library you actually use) instead of installing a lot of CDTs to compile a library that uses OpenGL.Note that
libgl-devel
only install the GL loader library used to compile and link the library that uses OpenGL. To actually run a program that loads OpenGL, you need to install the OpenGL drivers, that are not packaged by conda-forge, and should instead be installed with the system package manager, for example:sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri libglx-mesa0 libegl-mesa0
sudo dnf install mesa-libGL mesa-libEGL mesa-dri-drivers
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