ANGLE - Translating OpenGL ES 2 code to DirectX?

[Kevin Rushforth]

Joe is right, although one slight addition is in order:

> [we] have used windows es2 to vet out platform specific bugs. I think 
> we just don't ship with that support. 

The reason we don't ship the prism-es2 pipeline it is that the OpenGL 
drivers shipped by Intel, and to a lesser extent ATI, on Windows are too 
buggy for us to support. Various things simply don't work on Intel HD 
cards for example.

-- Kevin


Joseph Andresen wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> I took an extensive look into exactly what angle provides in terms of 
> a feature set, and at the time, found that it wouldn't really get us 
> anything. Technical challenges aside, being able to run the GL pipe on 
> windows is not limited by prism, in fact in the past me and other 
> engineers have used windows es2 to vet out platform specific bugs. I 
> think we just don't ship with that support.
>
> I do think one interesting thing to set up would be to use it to 
> validate our shaders (if all the legal stuff worked out and we were 
> actually able to use it).
>
> -Joe
>
>
>
>
> On 7/21/2014 4:17 AM, Tobias Bley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anybody knows the AngleProject? 
>> (https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/)
>>
>> It’s used by Chrome and Firefox for WebGL to translate OpenGL ES2 
>> code to DirectX on Windows….
>>
>> Maybe it can be used to use the JavaFX OpenGL ES2 pipeline on Windows 
>> too?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobi
>>
>>
>>
>