How do I get EGL and OpenGLES libraries for Ubuntu running on VirtualBox?

Question

I have Ubuntu running on VirtualBox. Guest additions are installed and now the OS is hardware acceleration capable. I have OpenGL library in place.

Now I want to run apps using egl + opengles1.1 & 2.0. How do i get them on Ubuntu?

Are there any open-source libraries available?

The libraries should use the VirtualBox-provided hardware acceleration capabilities.

Answer 1

Try ARM OpenGL ES 2.0 Emulator, I myself haven't managed to make OpenGL ES 2.0 work, but 1.1 seems to run fine(simpleApp demo). As I understand, it's supposed to be hardware accelerated as the emulator uses platform GL libraries and mesa3d is(not sure though) accelerated.

There's also libgles2-mesa - but unfortunately I couldn't make it work. es2gears/es2tri samples crash as well as simpleApp linked against mesa libs.

Answer 2

You can search for packages and package contents with apt-cache:

> apt-cache search opengels
mesa-utils-extra - Miscellaneous Mesa utilies (opengles, egl)

The output says that OpenGLES probably is in the package mesa-utils-extra. Mesa 3D has a project page for OpenGLES and writes there:

Mesa implements OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0. More informations about OpenGL ES can be found at http://www.khronos.org/opengles/.

EGL is also built into Mesa:

> apt-cache search mesa | grep -i egl
mesa-utils-extra - Miscellaneous Mesa utilies (opengles, egl)
libegl1-mesa - free implementation of the EGL API -- runtime
libegl1-mesa-dbg - free implementation of the EGL API -- debugging symbols
libegl1-mesa-dev - free implementation of the EGL API -- development files
libegl1-mesa-drivers - free implementation of the EGL API -- hardware drivers
libegl1-mesa-drivers-dbg - free implementation of the EGL API -- driver debugging symbols

So you need to install mesa-utils-extra and probably also libegl1-mesa.