Hi everyone, In the project I work on (Emscripten, an open source C/C++ to JavaScript compiler that utilizes LLVM), we want to be able to compile OpenGL games from desktop so that they work on WebGL on the web. The main remaining difficulty for us is to emulate the full OpenGL API using the WebGL API. WebGL is close to OpenGL ES 2.0, so it has shaders but lacks the fixed-function pipeline, glBegin etc.
So far we have some of the OpenGL ES 2.0 API implemented, you can see a demo of it on the web here: http://people.mozilla.org/~eakhgari/es2gears.html We are looking for the best way to implement the OpenGL API using the WebGL API, which is basically the problem of implementing OpenGL on top of OpenGL ES 2.0. Note that there is no problem with the fact that WebGL is a JavaScript API, it would be enough to implement OpenGL on OpenGL ES 2.0 in normal C/C++ code; we can automatically compile that code into JavaScript. There are several commercial products doing things of that nature, one of the approaches seems to involve implementing a "virtual OpenGL driver", basically a driver that implements the OpenGL API and internally uses OpenGL ES 2.0 to actually render. Since Mesa implements OpenGL drivers, I was wondering if there is some way for us to build on the Mesa code in order to do that? Basically, if we had an implementation of the full OpenGL API in C or C++, that we could in a reasonable way get to utilize OpenGL ES 2.0 as its "backend", that would be what we are looking for. Advice on the feasibility of that with Mesa would be very welcome! Alternatively, another approach we are considering is to write such an implementation from scratch (of the fixed- function pipeline etc.) in JavaScript + shaders. However that sounds like more work than reusing existing code, and also we would prefer to write code that can be useful for other projects too (a C/C++ way to run OpenGL on OpenGL ES 2.0 might be useful for other things than our own project). So doing something more integrated with Mesa, if that is feasible, sounds like it could be preferable. Best, Alon Zakai _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
