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#define S_DOCUMENTATION
#define S_DOCUMENTATION_COMPATIBILITY
#define PAGE Documentation
#define SUBPAGE Compatibility Matrix

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<p>
  Please 
  <a href="mailto:info@equalizergraphics.com?subject=Equalizer%20platform%20support">get in
    contact</a> with us if you need or anticipate additional platform support.
</p>

<table>
<tr>
  <th width="25%"></th>
  <th width="25%">WGL</th>
  <th width="25%">GLX (X11)</th>
  <th width="25%">AGL (Carbon)</th>
</tr>
<tr>
  <th>Windows XP<sup>1,5,7</sup></th>
  <td bgcolor="#ccffcc">pipe creates affinity context<sup>6</sup>, window uses
    handle (HWND) and WGL context (HGLRC)</td>
  <td bgcolor="#ffcccc">not yet implemented</td>
  <td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not exist</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <th>Linux<sup>2</sup></th>
  <td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not exist</td>
  <td bgcolor="#ccffcc">pipe uses X11 display connection (Display*), window uses
    X11 drawable (XID) and glX context (GLXContext)</td>
  <td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not exist</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <th>Mac OS X<sup>3</sup></th>
  <td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not exist</td>
  <td bgcolor="#ccffcc">same as Linux</td>
  <td bgcolor="#ccffcc">window uses Carbon WindowRef and AGLContext</td>
</tr>

<tr>
  <th>Other Unix-like<sup>4</sup></th><td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not
  exist</td>
  <td bgcolor="#ffffcc">same as Linux, minimal porting needed</td>
  <td bgcolor="#cccccc">API does not exist</td>
</tr>
</table>

<table>
  <tr><th>1</th><td>Visual Studio 2005 project files, tested both in 32 bit and
      64 bit Windows XP.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>2</th><td>tested both in 32 bit and 64 bit i386, as well as
      ia64. Regular testing on Ubuntu 6.10 and RHEL4.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>3</th><td>AGL or Tiger only support 32 bit, 64 bit possible with GLX
      on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Tested on i386 and ppc using 10.4 Tiger and on
      i386 and x86_64 using 10.5 Leopard. Universal libraries and universal
      binary support. Makefile-based build environment, no XCode or framework
      support yet.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>4</th><td>Version 0.1 was tested on SGI IRIX. Porting to other
      Unix-like operating system requires minimal porting effort, mostly for
      compiler differences.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>5</th><td>Version 0.4 and later has experimental support for
      Cygwin.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>6</th><td>requires WGL_NV_gpu_affinity extension available on nVidia
      Quadro fx with selected drivers.</td></tr>
  <tr><th>7</th><td>svn tree has experimental support for MinGW/MSys.</td></tr>
</p>

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