[Mesa-users] Unable to initialize mesasdk in Windows

[Koushik Sen]

Thank you Rob for the clarification. I am installing Ubuntu on my laptop
now.

Yours faithfully,
Koushik

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018, 2:29 p.m. Rob Farmer, <r.j.farmer at uva.nl> wrote:

> >So both Linux and i686 are there in uname -a but not in the uname -s
> 2>/dev/null. Is it a problem in extracting this information from the uname?
> Can something be done now?
>
> No, as i686 means its a 32 bit OS which we haven't supported in a long
> time. Even if we did tweak the os check you'll still have a problem
> compiling mesa itself with the stackoverflow issue i posted. Specifically
> the eos will fail during its tests, it will compile but it wont run, and
> even if you skip the tests you'll hit the same issue during a mesastar run.
>
> Rob
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 at 00:08, Evan Bauer <ebauer at physics.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 12:09 PM, Koushik Sen via Mesa-users <
>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>
>> I used this same WSL to install an run mesa (version 6794, sdk version
>> 20141212) in 2017 though, using the same commands as I have done now. It
>> installed smoothly then. However, just now I tried to install it again (the
>> older version) and the same set of error messages came up. For now, I think
>> I will install the Mesa docker and learn the basics until I get a Linux OS
>> installed.
>>
>>
>> I’ll go ahead and echo Bill and Rob and try to clarify a bit. Any type of
>> MESA run can be achieved within MESA-Docker on Windows, but performance
>> will not be optimal. On the same hardware, a full Linux installation will
>> always be faster than running in Docker. You might be able to tweak things
>> to get performance to be pretty close in Docker, but I would recommend
>> Linux for anyone who is serious about using MESA over the long term for
>> research.
>>
>> MESA-Docker is mostly intended to enable Windows users to get up and
>> running in MESA without the hassle of installing and learning a new
>> operating system. That’s why we tend to emphasize it as a tool for
>> education.
>>
>> There’s nothing fundamentally wrong about running MESA this way, but if
>> you’re eventually going to migrate to Linux to get the absolute best
>> performance, I’d recommend doing so as soon as you can. There are several
>> wonderful Linux distributions that are fairly easy to pick up. I use Ubuntu.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Evan
>>
>
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