Also, the quality of the OpenGL support by some drivers is lacking.ĪNGLE (Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine) is an open source project by Google. Newer versions are generally available through custom graphics drivers, but require users to install them. The Qt OpenGL module requires OpenGL 1.3 or later.Īlthough Microsoft Windows has native support for OpenGL since quite some time, the supported standard version (version 1 without any drivers installed) is too limited for Qt. The Qt Quick 2 stack in Qt 5 is based on OpenGL, and requires OpenGL 3.0 (alternatively OpenGL 2.x with the framebuffer_object extension) or higher or OpenGL ES 2.0.

OpenGL ES 2.0 (Open Graphics Library for Embedded Systems) is a stripped-down version of OpenGL for use on embedded systems, which is missing some functions. It's the de-facto standard for hardware-accelerated graphics operations on Mac OS X, Linux, and most embedded platforms.

OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) is a wide spread industry standard for rendering 2D and 3D computer graphics. The Qt project offers binary installers for both variants.

Qt 5 on Windows can be configured to use either OpenGL drivers, or DirectX drivers through the ANGLE library.

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