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Comment by holowoodman

15 hours ago

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

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direwolf20  13 hours ago

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

  • holowoodman  12 hours 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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