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Bug 1369 - (Linux) No window is created if SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL flag is set
Summary: (Linux) No window is created if SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL flag is set
Status: RESOLVED ABANDONED
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: video (show other bugs)
Version: HG 2.0
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
: P2 blocker
Assignee: Gabriel Jacobo
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-01-13 09:22 UTC by neuromancer85
Modified: 2018-08-06 21:20 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Example C program (2.12 KB, text/x-csrc)
2012-01-13 09:22 UTC, neuromancer85 		Details
System Info Report (16.75 KB, text/html)
2012-01-13 09:23 UTC, neuromancer85 		Details
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Description neuromancer85 2012-01-13 09:22:57 UTC 
Created attachment 767 [details]
Example C program

I'm trying to create a simple opengl window, but if I set SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL in SDL_CreateWindow() no window is created, and unfortunately SDL_GetError() does not return anything...
I'm on Arch Linux, Mesa 7.11.2, Intel Ironlake Mobile, SDL-hg rev6209
Comment 1 neuromancer85 2012-01-13 09:23:49 UTC 
Created attachment 768 [details]
System Info Report
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2012-01-13 18:03:12 UTC 
Have you tried debugging it?
That's a very thorough system info report, thanks!
Comment 3 neuromancer85 2012-01-14 09:11:09 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Have you tried debugging it?
> That's a very thorough system info report, thanks!

Yes, I tryed to debug it in Eclipse, but it wasn't very helpful... However, it seems that SDL_CreateWindow() returns NULL while SDL_GetError() returns 0x7ffff7bcc2e0 ""
Comment 4 davorin.ucakar 2012-02-19 12:14:09 UTC 
The problem is that SDL is configured with both SDL_VIDEO_OPENGL_GLX and SDL_VIDEO_OPENGL_ES (it's installed because of KDE >= 4.8).

That's why SDL initialises OpenGL ES instead of OpenGL & GLX, so window initialisation fails in video/x11/SDL_x11window.c:283 as X11_GL_GetVisual() returns NULL.
Comment 5 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-08-06 21:20:21 UTC 
Hello, and sorry if you're getting dozens of copies of this message by email.

We are closing out bugs that appear to be abandoned in some form. This can happen for lots of reasons: we couldn't reproduce it, conversation faded out, the bug was noted as fixed in a comment but we forgot to mark it resolved, the report is good but the fix is impractical, we fixed it a long time ago without realizing there was an associated report, etc.

Individually, any of these bugs might have a better resolution (such as WONTFIX or WORKSFORME or INVALID) but we've added a new resolution of ABANDONED to make this easily searchable and make it clear that it's not necessarily unreasonable to revive a given bug report.

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