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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by direwolf20 on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:44AM (#46765553)
Does AMD use a statically linked OpenGL?
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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by holowoodman on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:50AM (#46765603)
AMD uses the dynamically linked system libGL.so, usually Mesa.
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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by direwolf20 on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:18AM (#46767547)
So you still need dynamic linking to load the right driver for your graphics card.
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Re:The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dl... by holowoodman on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:46AM (#46767918)
Most stuff like that uses some kind of "icd" mechanism that does 'dlopen' on the vendor-specific parts of the library. Afaik neither OpenGL nor Vulkan nor OpenCL are usable without at least dlopen, if not full dynamic linking.
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