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Fix: don't link to OpenGL with SDL2 as backend; SDL2 dynamically loads it #8745

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Motivation / Problem

Our linux-generic had many more dependencies than strictly needed, because we linked to OpenGL, which dragged in X11 libraries, and booommm.

Description

Although for developers this doesn't change anything, for our
linux-generic binary it changes everything. Without this, the
OpenGL dynamic library is dragged in as dependency, and as it
depends on X11, that will be dragged in too. This is not
something we prefer to have, as that won't run on as many
machines as it could.

SDL2 doesn't depend on OpenGL directly, as it tries to load it
in on runtime. If found, it would work in exactly the same way
as if we would link to OpenGL ourselves. As such, this is
the best of both worlds: our linux-generics have less linked
dependencies, and developers won't notice any difference.

As a side-effect, if someone uses linux-generic on a machine
that does not have any OpenGL package installed, it will
gracefully fall back to the default backend of SDL instead.

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Some things are not automated, and forgotten often. This list is a reminder for the reviewers.

  • The bug fix is important enough to be backported? (label: 'backport requested')
  • This PR affects the save game format? (label 'savegame upgrade')
  • This PR affects the GS/AI API? (label 'needs review: Script API')
    • ai_changelog.hpp, gs_changelog.hpp need updating.
    • The compatibility wrappers (compat_*.nut) need updating.
  • This PR affects the NewGRF API? (label 'needs review: NewGRF')

@TrueBrain TrueBrain force-pushed the cmake-opengl-no-link-sdl2 branch 2 times, most recently from ef10b1b to 700d45b Compare February 25, 2021 19:15
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Although for developers this doesn't change anything, for our
linux-generic binary it changes everything. Without this, the
OpenGL dynamic library is dragged in as dependency, and as it
depends on X11, that will be dragged in too. This is not
something we prefer to have, as that won't run on as many
machines as it could.

SDL2 doesn't depend on OpenGL directly, as it tries to load it
in on runtime. If found, it would work in exactly the same way
as if we would link to OpenGL ourselves. As such, this is
the best of both worlds: our linux-generics have less linked
dependencies, and developers won't notice any difference.

As a side-effect, if someone uses linux-generic on a machine
that does not have any OpenGL package installed, it will
gracefully fall back to the default backend of SDL instead.
@TrueBrain TrueBrain merged commit dc7ba33 into OpenTTD:master Feb 26, 2021
@TrueBrain TrueBrain deleted the cmake-opengl-no-link-sdl2 branch February 26, 2021 23:34
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