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Always use 3 buffers when flipping. With only 2 buffers, we have to wait for a flip to complete (which takes non-0 time even with asynchronous flips) before we can start working on the next frame. We were previously only using 2 buffers for flipping if the X server supports asynchronous flips, even when we're not using asynchronous flips. This could result in bad performance (the referenced bug report is an extreme case, where the inter-frame stalls were preventing the GPU from reaching its maximum clocks). I couldn't measure any performance boost using 4 buffers with flipping. Performance actually seemed to go down slightly, but that might have been just noise. Without flipping, a single back buffer is enough for swap interval 0, but we need to use 2 back buffers when the swap interval is non-0, otherwise we have to wait for the swap interval to pass before we can start working on the next frame. This condition was previously reversed. Cc: "12.0 11.2" <mesa-stable@lists.freedesktop.org> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97260 Reviewed-by: Frank Binns <frank.binns@imgtec.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
File: docs/README.WIN32 Last updated: 21 June 2013 Quick Start ----- ----- Windows drivers are build with SCons. Makefiles or Visual Studio projects are no longer shipped or supported. Run scons libgl-gdi to build gallium based GDI driver. This will work both with MSVS or Mingw. Windows Drivers ------- ------- At this time, only the gallium GDI driver is known to work. Source code also exists in the tree for other drivers in src/mesa/drivers/windows, but the status of this code is unknown. Recipe ------ Building on windows requires several open-source packages. These are steps that work as of this writing. - install python 2.7 - install scons (latest) - install mingw, flex, and bison - install pywin32 from here: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs get pywin32-218.4.win-amd64-py2.7.exe - install git - download mesa from git see http://www.mesa3d.org/repository.html - run scons General ------- After building, you can copy the above DLL files to a place in your PATH such as $SystemRoot/SYSTEM32. If you don't like putting things in a system directory, place them in the same directory as the executable(s). Be careful about accidentially overwriting files of the same name in the SYSTEM32 directory. The DLL files are built so that the external entry points use the stdcall calling convention. Static LIB files are not built. The LIB files that are built with are the linker import files associated with the DLL files. The si-glu sources are used to build the GLU libs. This was done mainly to get the better tessellator code. If you have a Windows-related build problem or question, please post to the mesa-dev or mesa-users list.