[Linux] Wayland Support

[f1nalspace]

Currently we only support X11 for linux, so please add support for wayland.

But this needs a bit of thinking because:

• X11 is integrated using the preprocessor only
• Win32 is integrated as preprocessor as well
• Do we want windowing backends? -> This would require a ton of work!
• Another subplatform and either use X11 or Wayland?

[KungPhoo]

Is it possible to draw to the fullscreen framebuffer /dev/fb0 instead of depending on X11? My app is a fullscreen app, that draws on software buffer or OpenGL. Requiring an X11 server seems a bit overkill for my project - but hey, it works :D.

[f1nalspace]

Is it possible to draw to the fullscreen framebuffer /dev/fb0 instead of depending on X11? My app is a fullscreen app, that draws on software buffer or OpenGL. Requiring an X11 server seems a bit overkill for my project - but hey, it works :D.

Sorry for the late response, the short answer is: Not really.

The long answer is, that any kind of video backend is tied to the windowing system right now. Also without any window system, there are no events, no inputs, whatsoever.

But in the next version the input system, the video system and even the events will be separated from the window system.
Events will be tricky, but input and video should be fairly easy.

So this is a totally reasonable goal, because there are several ways in linux/unix how to render something - with just the console or even to a device directly. Making a video backend that uses a framebuffer device should be possible then.

I created separate issues for that:
#178
#177

[Abhinavpatel00]

may be we just make enum with runtime switch instead of preprocessor approach in linux?

[Abhinavpatel00]

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[f1nalspace]

today i was searching for window abstraction libraries and i got your , it's amazing work , thank you and also its well written

Thanks.

[f1nalspace]

may be we just make enum with runtime switch instead of preprocessor approach in linux?

Thats what i am going to do eventually, but auto-detect if wayland or x11 similar to the audio backend system.