[Mesa 17.x.x on Win9x]

3 hours ago, awkduck said:

I'm working on trying to build a few things. There are plenty of gotchas, when targeting Win9x. The JHRobotics pthread9x might be useful for using newer Msys2/mingw-w64 (32bit or target 32bit). You could then "maybe" avoid issues, that occur from using older build environments/tooling.

If you were trying to build Mesa 21.* for Win98/ME, you could compare your build error outputs to the JHRobotics project, and merge the fix into yours (supposing there were patches implemented/required?).

On a side note: I started wondering if the reason it didn't work for you, but did for TheMajorTechie, has something to do with video drivers. Maybe there is a minimum OpenGL requirement, that you card doesn't have? We're looking at OpenGL4.x against drivers that support OpenGL 2.1 and maybe 3.x.

I've been able to get it to work both with and without video drivers installed on my Athlon XP. 

I will say that the Pentium M only supports up to SSE2 though.

[Mesa 17.x.x on Win9x]

Huh. That's strange. The Pentium M certainly supports SSE. I'm not sure if this has any impact or not, but I have KernelEX installed on my own Windows 98 machine. Though the files do normally work fine without it, maybe it could help?

[Mesa 17.x.x on Win9x]

On 4/28/2023 at 4:58 PM, WhiteArmpits said:

It doesn't work, It throws the exact same error as the other Mesa files (OPENGL32.DLL+0x172d963), thanks for trying to help me tho

What hardware are you trying to run it on? It mentions that even the most basic softpipe implementation requires a Pentium II to run, meaning you'll need at minimum i686 compatibility. I can confirm that it works fine on Windows 98 and an AMD Athlon XP, which has i686 compatibility and SSE extensions.