gleri | Network protocol , service , and API for using OpenGL

gleri is a C++ library. gleri has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

GLERI is a library implementing an OpenGL functionality service and a protocol for communicating with it. This allows creation of executables that do not have to link with OpenGL libraries, have direct access to the DRI devices, or require a local X11 connection. The service is called gleris and can be used either standalone, or be launched individually by libgleri-using applications. By default, only the local $HOME/.config/gleris.socket is created. If you want a TCP socket, run gleris -t, which will make it listen on localhost port 6540+display. Alternatively, you can use systemd socket activation to create appropriate sockets and have them passed to gleris automatically. You can then forward that port with ssh to wherever with the ssh -R command. When you do this, you’ll need to also copy the xauth token and set DISPLAY (or GLERI_DISPLAY if you are already forwarding X with ssh -X) to match it on the server. gleris will load the xauth token for the display it is running on, and can not read the xauth token generated by ssh -X, because that token is only used inside ssh. So you need to set the display variable to the same value gleris sees. The library is libgleri.a, See the test/ program for a usage example. The target platform is a POSIX compliant architecture, such as Linux or BSD. Windows and embedded platforms are absolutely not supported. Other minimum requirements are Linux kernel 2.6.28, GCC 4.6 or clang++ 3.2. Wayland will likely be supported in the future when it supports OpenGL (currently it only has OpenGL ES support). Required libraries are zlib, libpng, and libjpeg. OpenGL 3.3+ is required. The current open source drivers support it on Intel hardware since Mesa 10.1 and radeon and noveau since 10.2. Binary drivers, however, still deliver the best results for nVidia. To build: ./configure && make To install: make install Test program: make check Documentation: docs/ Tutorials: tut/.