Binary distributions?

[Giles Thomas]

Hi there,

In Ken Russell and Vangelis Kokkevis’s SIGGRAPH presentation on WebGL in Chrome, they mentioned that it can now use ANGLE if you "[d]rop libGLES2.dll and libEGL.dll in the same directory as chrome.exe".  As far as I can tell, right now there are no binary distributions on the project page, so people would need to build it from source to do that -- please do let me know if I've missed anything!

Personally, I'm happy to build it myself to try it out, but I'm sure there are a number of potential users/testers out there who don't have the required tools to do it.  Is there a case for a binary distribution to support them?  If it's not something anyone wants to have to maintain, I'd be happy to do a one-off build from the head or any recommended revision, and to host it.  Alternatively, perhaps the lack of a pre-built binary is a useful filter to stop naive users from using it at this stage...?


Cheers,

Giles
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[Vangelis Kokkevis]

Hi Giles,

  We're working through a few remaining issues that prevent us from turning on ANGLE by default in Chrome. I expect we'll have the ANGLE binaries included in the chrome nightly build installer real soon. In the meantime though, like you said, you'll have to build them yourself.

  Once we feel comfortable that we have all the issues resolved, we'll branch ANGLE 1.0 and put the binaries up as well. It's a bit premature to do it now as the code changes on a daily basis.

Cheers,

Vangelis

[Giles Thomas]

Hi Vangelis,

OK, thanks for clarifying.  Sounds like it's best if we leave it to people who have the knowledge/tools to compile it themselves to test it at this stage, then -- I won't try to host "unofficial" binaries.  At least one person has managed to get it all working just from knowing it was possible, which is encouraging: <http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?p=2530&cpage=1#comment-8537>

Cheers,

Giles