PortableGL

[netpipe]

https://github.com/rswinkle/PortableGL

if this is compatible with irrlicht it could make our software rendering implementation faster and more portable to other operating systems easier and for new 32 bit arduino's ?

[CuteAlien]

Yeah, seen it a while ago when it was on Hacker News. I'm not 100% sure - but this is basically a software imlementation of OpenGL that also supports shaders? Not going to add it to Irrlicht, but as as a fun project someone could try if it works with our opengl driver already.

[netpipe]

https://github.com/rswinkle/PortableGL/ ... dertoy.cpp looks to support shaders aswell.

[netpipe]

i had also thought maybe we should add tar archive support to irrlicht.

some existing options are

microtar - https://github.com/rxi/microtar
sash - cmd_tar.c - https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/syste ... sash.tar.z

the advantages could be large on windows and emscripten python to be able to extract the archive files to the directory they are in.

[CuteAlien]

We already have a tar reader in Irrlicht ;-)

[netpipe]

need an exporter to the same directory for python libs

[CuteAlien]

Yeah, no writer. Thought you can maybe add some externally without changing Irrlicht (I didn't try... but in theory it should be possible?)

[netpipe]

https://github.com/sultim-t/RayTracedGL1 might be a good place to wonder if this would work anywhere too.

[netpipe]

https://github.com/netpipe/LunaLibs/tree/master/mtar

microtar works on windows/linux but i had to make the directorys's manually to put the files to match the structure from the archive. will try and see if it can do that better soon.