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0 pointsdirewolf205mo ago0 comments

Does AMD use a statically linked OpenGL?

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holowoodman5mo ago· 2 in thread

AMD uses the dynamically linked system libGL.so, usually Mesa.

direwolf20OP5mo ago

So you still need dynamic linking to load the right driver for your graphics card.

holowoodman5mo ago

Most stuff like that uses some kind of "icd" mechanism that does 'dlopen' on the vendor-specific parts of the library. Afaik neither OpenGL nor Vulkan nor OpenCL are usable without at least dlopen, if not full dynamic linking.

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