Off-screen Rendering ==================== Mesa's off-screen interface is used for rendering into user-allocated memory without any sort of window system or operating system dependencies. That is, the GL_FRONT colorbuffer is actually a buffer in main memory, rather than a window on your display. The OSMesa API provides three basic functions for making off-screen renderings: OSMesaCreateContext(), OSMesaMakeCurrent(), and OSMesaDestroyContext(). See the Mesa/include/GL/osmesa.h header for more information about the API functions. The OSMesa interface may be used with the gallium software renderers: #. llvmpipe - this is the high-performance Gallium LLVM driver #. softpipe - this it the reference Gallium software driver There are several examples of OSMesa in the mesa/demos repository. Building OSMesa --------------- Configure and build Mesa with something like: .. code-block:: console meson builddir -Dosmesa=true -Dgallium-drivers=swrast -Ddri-drivers=[] -Dvulkan-drivers=[] -Dprefix=$PWD/builddir/install ninja -C builddir install Make sure you have LLVM installed first if you want to use the llvmpipe driver. When the build is complete you should find: :: $PWD/builddir/install/lib/libOSMesa.so Set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to $PWD/builddir/install to use the libraries When you link your application, link with -lOSMesa
