[Request]: mesa-dist-win

[shirok1]

Prerequisites

• I have searched all issues/PRs to ensure it has not already been reported or fixed.

Criteria

• Reasonably well-known and widely used
• A game or a game-related tool
• English interface (or at least English documentation)
• Latest stable or development version
• Full version (i.e. not a trial version)
• Fairly standard install (e.g. uses a version-specific download URL, no elaborate pre/post install scripts)

Name

mesa-dist-win

Description

mesa builds for windows, can be used as gl on dx or gl on vk wrapper, like dxvk or dxwrapper but for opengl games

Homepage

https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win

Download Link(s)

https://github.com/pal1000/mesa-dist-win/releases

Some Indication of Popularity/Repute

GitHub stars?

[Calinou]

Feel free to open a pull request for this 🙂

However, I'm not sure what kind of post-install steps should be taken. Automatically installing it system-wide as a post_install step is probably too invasive, as it'll take priority over hardware-accelerated OpenGL.

[shirok1]

I think it's just fine to extract it to ~/scoop/apps and prompt user that they they can grab dlls from there, just like dxvk.

"Installing" it system-wide do make problems (fun fact Microsoft actually distribute their builds of Mesa on MS Store, as vendor GL implement on some Qualcomm devices is so bad)

[shirok1]

The real problem with Mesa GLonDX12 or so, is that it wasn't designed to be a simple application level "workaround" wrapper, so it lacks configuration ability like dxvk.conf, and use environment variables instead.