swung0x48 7e244b3775 [MG_Remote] (P6/cp): a real trace retraces across two processes, pixel-for-pixel
OpenRA.DirectGLES.SPAWN is green: ssim=1.000000, mismatchPixels=0, zero
Fatal{ lines, against a server in a process the client started by name. The
inproc SPLIT arm stays beside it as the control, so "did the transport break
it" and "did the phase break it" remain separately answerable.

Five defects stood between the handshake and that picture. Each one was
silent in its own way, and none of them looked like what it was.

1. THE DOORBELL COULD NOT WAKE ITSELF. SocketDoorbell's one-fd form sends on
   the end it polls, so a write is delivered to the PEER - correct for waking
   the other process, useless for waking a thread in this one. The server's
   control pump posts into the apply thread's mailbox and must ring the bell
   that thread parks on. Symptom: every eglInitialize crossed, landed in the
   mailbox, and timed out at 5 s. The two-fd form (park on [0], notify on [1])
   is restored here, and the bell handover goes from two descriptors to THREE
   - the client needs the same split for the same reason. Seven offers now.

2. InitCapabilities HAD NO WIRE KIND. CONTRACT-P6 §2 predicted this exactly
   ("the request has a live client caller and the codec refuses to encode
   it"). SurfaceOpKind gains 11, append-only; the decode range's upper bound
   moves with it, or the new tag reads as out-of-range and surfaces as
   Fatal{ProtocolCorruption} rather than the missing row it is. The op's name
   loses its InprocOnly suffix, which stopped being true here.

3. THE CHILD LOADED NO CONFIG AT ALL. mobilegl_server_main calls
   InitServerRoleForSpawn directly, and MG_ConfigLoader::Init is a step of
   MobileGL::Initialize - so every MG_Config value in the server was its
   static default. MOBILEGL_BACKEND_TYPE survives the launcher's scrub on
   purpose and was read by nobody: a DirectVulkan session would have brought
   up a DirectGLES server and then disagreed with its client about which
   backend the capability mask describes.

4. AND THEREFORE Transport READ AS Monolith, which CONTRACT-P6 §3.1 (D1)
   forbids in as many words. a6 measured the cost: 226 live lines test
   `Transport != Monolith` to select the SERVER arm, 148 in MG_Backend.
   Monolith flips all of them to frontend glue in the one process with no
   frontend. Observed precisely as predicted - UnitTexturesByHandle() answered
   false, Clear took the legacy arm that dereferences borrowed FRONTEND slot
   pointers, and the apply thread took a SIGSEGV inside SyncNeccessaryTextures
   on the first Clear record of the trace. It is pinned in-process rather than
   through the environment because the environment is where it must NOT be:
   LooksLikeAClientEnvironment exits 65 on a surviving MOBILEGL_TRANSPORT, and
   that check is anti-recursion catch (b). Dial, not Transport, is that axis.

5. THE LOG WAS CORRUPT, NOT MERELY INTERLEAVED. Two processes opened the same
   MOBILEGL_LOG_FILE_PATH with "w" and each carried its OWN file offset, so
   they overwrote each other's bytes - half-lines like `ote client: CapsMirror
   generation 1 adopted`, and the server's whole startup block vanishing under
   the client's later writes. This cost real diagnosis time twice, because a
   missing line read as a code path not taken. O_APPEND now; the client still
   truncates once so a fresh run is not a pile of old ones, and the server
   never does - it would delete the very startup lines a failed session needs.
   run_trace_case.cmake's Fatal{ census reads exactly this file, so it was
   also reading a lie.

The retrace runner's split assertions become transport-aware: one row per
transport it admits, and a transport with no row is a FATAL rather than a
fall-through, because the fall-through is the accident the block exists to
prevent. The spawn row carries a SECOND sentence and it is the stronger half
- ConfigLoader's marker proves the value RESOLVED, while `spawn ARMED - the
server role runs in pid N` is written only after the launch, the connect and
the handshake all succeeded, and carries a pid that is not this process's.
inproc resolves its own marker while running the server role on a thread
here; nothing on that path can write this one.

G14: one test name added (TheEleventhFramedOpIsInitCapabilitiesAndItCrosses-
TheWire), none removed. The ten-op table keeps its name and its scope rather
than being renamed to eleven.

Two unit failures predate this change and are environmental in this tree:
PipeCatalogue.FrontendNeverTakesAnApplierAddress (the frontend source root
resolves empty) and SessionHandshakeTest.TheAbiFingerprintChangesWhenAnyOf-
ItsInputsDoes (GIT_COMMIT_HASH_SHORT is empty here, which a6 already recorded
as red in this configuration).
2026-09-21 12:23:41 -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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