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9 SDL has support for OpenGL ES 2.x under Windows via two alternative
11 The most straightforward method consists in running your app in a system with
12 a graphic card paired with a relatively recent (as of November of 2013) driver
13 which supports the WGL_EXT_create_context_es2_profile extension. Vendors known
14 to ship said extension on Windows currently include nVidia and Intel.
16 The other method involves using the ANGLE library (https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/)
17 If an OpenGL ES 2.x context is requested and no WGL_EXT_create_context_es2_profile
18 extension is found, SDL will try to load the libEGL.dll library provided by
20 To obtain the ANGLE binaries, you can either compile from source from
21 https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle or copy the relevant binaries from
22 a recent Chrome/Chromium install for Windows. The files you need are:
26 * d3dcompiler_46.dll (supports Windows Vista or later, better shader compiler)
28 * d3dcompiler_43.dll (supports Windows XP or later)
30 If you compile ANGLE from source, you can configure it so it does not need the
31 d3dcompiler_* DLL at all (for details on this, see their documentation).
32 However, by default SDL will try to preload the d3dcompiler_46.dll to
33 comply with ANGLE's requirements. If you wish SDL to preload d3dcompiler_43.dll (to
34 support Windows XP) or to skip this step at all, you can use the
35 SDL_HINT_VIDEO_WIN_D3DCOMPILER hint (see SDL_hints.h for more details).
39 * SDL_GL_SetSwapInterval is currently a no op when using ANGLE. It appears
40 that there's a bug in the library which prevents the window contents from
41 refreshing if this is set to anything other than the default value.