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Developing openGL on Ubuntu on the Windows Linux Subsystem
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openGL_on_WLSS.md

  1. Install Ubuntu through the Windows store

  2. Enable rendering of GUI applications from Ubuntu/WLSS in Windows using a Windows X-server

  • Install VxSrv on Windows
  • On Ubuntu/WLSS open .bashrc and add the following lines to the end, then save file and restart:
# tell GUI display to use the Windows X-server listening on localhost:0.0
export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
# make rendering happen on the Windows side of things rather than Ubuntu
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1
  1. Install libraries needed for openGL dev:
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
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