OK, that makes sense. Yeah, hidden uses of GL (by mistake or not) is what I'm worried about.
I thought that I could make sure this won't happen by building a minimal Qt (no Qml, no WebEngine or WebKit, etc) and with "-no-opengl", but that won't work as it results in build errors. On 22/03/15 18:30, Agocs Laszlo wrote: > As long as the application is pure widgets, without ever using QOpenGL/QGL > classes or QQuickWidget, it will not attempt to initialize any OpenGL stuff. > (if that's not the case, it's a bug, we had some of these recently, like > QTBUG-43832) This means that not having OpenGL or ANGLE working (or > available) is not a problem for such apps. > > Starting with 5.5 the only type of pre-built packages for Windows are the > dynamic GL ones, so the confusion of needing to ship ANGLE libs even for > widget-only apps will go away. > > Cheers, > Laszlo > > > ________________________________________ > From: interest-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org > <interest-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany....@qt-project.org> on behalf of > Giuseppe D'Angelo <dange...@gmail.com> > Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 4:48 PM > To: Nikos Chantziaras > Cc: interest@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Interest] Is the OpenGL vs Angle distinction important for > widget apps? > > On 22 March 2015 at 10:28, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For applications that don't use Qml and only use QWidget, does it matter >> whether Qt was built with OpenGL or Angle on Windows? > > It still matters because > > 1) ANGLE means extra dependencies to be shipped along your app > 2) ANGLE does not work on Windows XP > > So for pure-widgets applications it might make more sense to use the > Desktop OpenGL build of Qt. YMMV :) _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
