Comment by cogman10
10 months ago
> Isn't mesa portable? Or are there parts that are OS-specific?
IDK. I'm not familiar with mesa enough to know how portable it is. That said, I do know that it's primarily deployed on linux. An issue with portability is simply that when big projects like mesa are developed, non-linux environments are rarely developed (No clue, for example, if you can build mesa for BSD).
> Or do you mean that being on Linux makes GNU stuff easy?
Mostly this. I don't think, for example, those GNU tools will port over to redox. Building them targeting android is a snap.
Mesa:
There are official freebsd packages of mesa: https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=mesa-&stype=al...
In fact, https://doc.redox-os.org/book/graphics-windowing.html seems to imply that redox is or plans to use mesa.
Android:
Okay, that's fair; termux already proved that GNU on Android is viable.