swung0x48 5617c5c3b3 [MG_IntegrationTest, docs] (P7): the texture upload shape becomes a gate, with the view remap inside the workload
P3b/P4b R-11 / D-D4, landing under the P7 program (PLAN-PH-P34B-P7.md 1.2, wave 2-D
package D2). P4a recorded the emission shape rather than gating it because the
per-storage-owner cursor with view/owner remapping was the next phase's and gating an
unfinished shape pins a non-answer. That work landed, so the RecordProperty block is
now EXPECT_EQ against a gold row MEASURED on this cursor, and the workload carries a
third texture written through a glTextureView so the remap is inside the counted
window.

The gold row, identical on monolith / inproc / spawn / tcp:
  emit=9 box=9 rect=0 jobs=9, client emitter 9
keyed on the workload constants by static_assert. P4a's emit=6 box=6 rect=0 jobs=6
was a two-texture workload with no client emitter and is not comparable.

The client half is read from MGPipeTextureEmitter::SubDataCount() rather than from
ctu=, and that is a correction: under spawn and tcp the two roles are two processes
whose PipeStats windows close on different Present cadences (measured ctu=13 against
emit=9, and usually not yet written when the case reads), so ctu == emit is not a
well-posed comparison there. The log field is kept as a record and asserted only
where the transport says the two are window-aligned - asking the NUMBER was the first
mistake, because the server publishes a readable ctu=0 under spawn and the comparison
silently became 0 == 9. PipeStatsWindow gains LastFromClientLog/LastFromServerLog.

Split/spawn/tcp arms added as explicit per-arm blocks rather than through
mgl_itest_register_split_arms: the macro hands every arm the shared environment, and
this case needs a lane marker, PipeStats period 1, a push mask and above all a
MOBILEGL_LOG_FILE_PATH private to the arm - the library opens the log "w", so two
entries sharing a path truncate each other and the failure looks exactly like "the
counter was never emitted".

Red-once (R-16): the prescribed flip of summedArea*4 >= unionArea*3 leaves the gate
GREEN, and that is a finding. Two gates downstream dominate it - the server needs
dirtyRectCount >= 2, and UnpackRingAvailable() zeroes the rect list by design ("one
box, one job", the existing Mali-cliff mitigation). So rect=0 is the policy's
intended output, not an accident of the scatter pattern. The red-once that bites
splits the union box in two AND disables the unpack ring: box=6 rect=3 jobs=12
against the gold, while 26 pixel cases stay green. Four attempts and their reasons
are in the note.

The Mali frame-time delta D-D4 asks for beside the gold is NOT schedulable - one
Redmi, an Adreno, no Mali part - and is recorded as a declared deviation in the
scenario header and MEASUREMENTS.md 13.3 rather than modelled.

Also corrects the three places that said the client emitter had not landed: the
scenario header, the CMake probe's comment, and gates-v1.md's re-run table.
TextureEmit.h's EmitOneLevel has been incrementing it.
2026-09-22 17:31:51 -04:00

MobileGL

C++ GNU LGPL 3.0 Development

A desktop OpenGL implementation

MobileGL is a free and open-source project that implements a desktop OpenGL API. The goal is to provide a complete desktop OpenGL implementation with a state management layer and multi-backend support.

Note

Status: In development. Parts of the codebase are incomplete. Current short-term target: OpenGL 4.2 (Core Profile).

Project positioning

MobileGL is an implementation of a desktop OpenGL library. It aims to provide:

  • Full OpenGL state management.
  • A front-end that exposes OpenGL functions.
  • Multiple independent backend implementations, where each backend targets a specific graphics API and remains fully isolated from others.

This project is intended as an implementation/translation layer.

Key components

The repository is organized into following top-level modules:

  1. MG_State — state tracking and management logic for Graphics APIs.
  2. MG_Impl — front-end implementations of Graphics APIs that interact with MG_State and MG_Backend.
  3. MG_Backend — per-backend translation layer that maps front-end Graphics APIs' semantics and state into concrete backend API calls (e.g. OpenGL ES, Vulkan).
  4. MG_Util and other utility modules.

Third-party components

MobileGL reuses several open-source projects:

Refer to each component's repository for exact license texts. Any bundled third-party code in this repository is included under the upstream project's license.

Compatibility & target

  • Short-term target: OpenGL 4.2 (Core Profile).
  • Current development focus:
    • Performance improvement
    • MG_State and MG_Impl for OpenGL 4.2 (Core Profile)
    • Direct (Vulkan) backend
    • Direct (OpenGL ES) backend

Build Instructions

We currently provide no releases and no precompiled binaries.
If you want to try the project right now, you’ll need to build it yourself:

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/MobileGL-Dev/MobileGL.git
    
  2. Initialize and update all submodules recursively:

    git submodule update --init --recursive
    
  3. Follow glslang’s own documentation for its required initiation.

  4. Configure and build the project with CMake:

    cmake -B build
    cmake --build build
    

    or do it in a modern way:

    cmake -S . -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++
    cmake --build build
    

    Alternatively, you can use platform-specific build commands as needed.

Build For macOS

On macOS, MobileGL can be built as a dylib that exposes the normal OpenGL/CGL/NSOpenGL entry points and routes them to the DirectVulkan backend. This is useful for running applications such as Minecraft through their stock GLFW/LWJGL OpenGL path while MobileGL is injected before context creation.

Prerequisites:

  • macOS with Clang and Ninja.
  • Vulkan loader and MoltenVK installed. With Homebrew, the MoltenVK ICD is commonly located at /opt/homebrew/etc/vulkan/icd.d/MoltenVK_icd.json.

Configure and build:

cmake -S . -B build-macos-magma \
  -G Ninja \
  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
  -DMOBILEGL_BACKEND_TYPE=DirectVulkan \
  -DMOBILEGL_BUILD_TEST=OFF \
  -DMOBILEGL_BUILD_BENCHMARK=OFF

cmake --build build-macos-magma --target MobileGL -j8

The dylib will be generated at:

build-macos-magma/libMobileGL.dylib

To run Minecraft by MobileGL from a launcher like PrismLauncher, keep the stock LWJGL/GLFW natives and add a wrapper command to the instance settings:

env DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/absolute/path/to/MobileGL/build-macos-magma/libMobileGL.dylib MOBILEGL_BACKEND_TYPE=DirectVulkan VK_ICD_FILENAMES=/opt/homebrew/etc/vulkan/icd.d/MoltenVK_icd.json

Also make sure the JVM arguments include:

-XstartOnFirstThread

DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES must be active before GLFW creates its OpenGL context. After startup, the Minecraft F3 screen should report MobileGL and the Direct (Vulkan) backend if the injection worked.

Build Options

Option Description Default
MOBILEGL_BUILD_TEST Build MobileGL tests (requires Clang) ON
MOBILEGL_BUILD_BENCHMARK Build MobileGL benchmarks (requires Clang) ON
MOBILEGL_FORCE_RELEASE_OPT Enable O3 and LTO in Debug build ON
MOBILEGL_ENABLE_TRACY Enable Tracy profiler for performance analysis OFF

Notes:

  • The project requires C++23.
  • MG_Test and MG_Benchmark can only be built with Clang, not GCC. To enforce Clang, add -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ to your command.
  • On Android, tests and benchmarks are always disabled.

Environment Variables

MobileGL supports runtime configuration via environment variables.

Supported Keys

Variable Description Allowed Values Default
MOBILEGL_BACKEND_TYPE Select active backend implementation at startup. DirectGLES, DirectVulkan DirectGLES
MOBILEGL_DISABLE_TIMERQUERY Disable GPU timer-query exposure and use. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_USE_ANGLE Load ANGLE EGL/GLES libraries. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_MAGMA_DISABLE_SUBGROUP Disable Vulkan shader subgroup support. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_ADVERTISE_FP64 Advertise GL_ARB_gpu_shader_fp64. GLSL double/dvec/dmat compile and run either way - they are narrowed to 32 bits - so this only changes whether an application is told it has 64-bit precision, which it does not. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_MAGMA_R11G11B10F_FALLBACK Use Magma's R11G11B10F format fallback. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_MAGMA_FRAMESINFLIGHT Set Magma frames in flight. Integer 1–64 3
MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_AVOID_SAMPLER_MIPMAP_MIN_FILTER Avoid sampler mipmap minification filters. 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_COHERENT_AS_FLUSH Treat persistent GL_MAP_FLUSH_EXPLICIT_BIT maps as coherent (app-compat for engines like Flywheel that never flush them). 0, 1 0
MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_FORCE_DS_READBACK_EMULATION Always emulate depth/stencil glReadPixels/glGetTexImage by shader sampling on Espryt, instead of using the driver's own depth/stencil readback where it has one. 0, 1 0
VK_ICD_FILENAMES Select the Vulkan ICD used by the Vulkan loader. Path to an ICD JSON file Loader default

License

This project is distributed under GNU LGPL v3.0. See the LICENSE file in the repository for detailed information.

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