Quoting marius schebella marius.schebella@gmail.com:
hi, may I join you in that discussion? I understand now that the Gem package in the pd-extended is built for nvidia support and does not run without a nvidia card. correct? But what I want to know is, (I don't know so much about configure scripting..) when I build my own Gem and have NO nvidia card, will I have to type --disable-NV? that would not make sense to me...
configure should detect whether your system supports glDeleteProgramsNV() (note: this does not necessarily mean that you need to have an nvidia card; but since the extension is proposed by nvidia, chances are higher that their cards&drivers support it). if it does then Gem will be built with it. if it doesn't then Gem will be build without it.
I would like to compile my Gem later today. so thnx for answers.
on recent machines, Gem builds quite fast; so you could try both. that is: if configure fails to detect your system's possibilities; in this case, i would be very interested in your setup.
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