Hi,
I would like to propose a change of where we get the ANGLE sources we
use in qtbase. At the moment we use Google's ANGLE
(https://github.com/google/angle). Unfortunately they stopped supporting
MSVC 2015 last year and their UWP code path does not build out of the
box. Microsoft (https://github.com/Microsoft/angle) still actively
maintains MSVC 2015 and also has a focus on UWP within their port. As
far as I can tell there is no difference in the license used, so we
should be fine from that point of view.
Background info: ANGLE is used to translate OpenGL calls to Direct 3D.
This is done for desktop Windows
- by default (when no "-opengl ..." is given (which arguably should
be changed to dynamic))
- if native OpenGL fails (when configured with -opengl dynamic)
due to crappy opengl drivers or blacklisted GPU for example
Is everyone ok with this change? The ANGLE update from Google (which
uses a revision that still supports MSVC 2015) would be ready
(https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/233385/), but we would like to
use a newer version from Microsoft for 5.12 if we can agree on this change.
Best regards,
Olli
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