BuGLe

BuGLe is an open source software for OpenGL debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your application and OpenGL.

Here is an extract from a log, generated from an application:

stats.fps: 22.671
stats.fragments: 52335
stats.triangles: 99732
trace.call: glXSwapBuffers(0x8117720, 0x01c00021)
trace.call: glXMakeCurrent(0x8117720, 0x01c00021, 0x8444800) = 1
trace.call: glBindBufferARB(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 1)
trace.call: glMapBufferARB(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, GL_READ_WRITE) = 0x45c3c000
trace.call: glUnmapBufferARB(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER) = GL_TRUE
trace.call: glBindBufferARB(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0)
trace.call: glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)
trace.call: glLoadMatrixd(0xbfffe610 -> { { 0, -0.29661, 1.22295, 0 }, { 1.22295, 0, 0, 0 }, { 0, 1.18644, 0.305739, 0 }, { 0.037888, 1.61781, -1.52576, 1 } })
trace.call: glActiveTextureARB(GL_TEXTURE0)
trace.call: glTexEnvfv(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_COLOR, 0xbfffe5d0 -> { 0.778524, 0.778524, 0.569631, 0 })
trace.call: glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_UNITS, 0xbfffe688 -> 4)
trace.call: glBindBufferARB(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 1)
trace.call: glVertexPointer(3, GL_FLOAT, 32, (nil))

What is new in this release:

• This is the first release to use the Khronos XML API registry, with the result that reflection information is more accurate.
• It also contains a number of bug fixes.

What is new in version 0.0.20111115:

• This is a maintenance release: there are no major new features, but some things have been improved and there are many bugfixes.
• Amongst other things, it should work better on Ubuntu 11.10 than previous releases.

What is new in version 0.0.20101121:

• This release contains miscellaneous bugfixes. In particular, it should now build with Ubuntu 10.10.

What is new in version 0.0.20091026:

• This release fixes a compilation problem with newer versions of glext.h.
• If you have successfully installed the previous version, there is no need to upgrade.

What is new in version 0.0.20090706:

• Make compilation work with latest glext.h

What is new in version 0.0.20090411:

• Fix display of uniform arrays to show all elements, not just one (closes: #53)
• Fix input system to not call X functions inside an event predicate (closes: #55)
• Improved symbolic display of enums for EGL and GLX
• Added block parameter to bugle_api_enum_name and bugle_api_enum_extensions
• Removed bugle_count_glx_attributes in favour of generic bugle_count_glwin_attributes
• Removed bugle_dump_glx_attributes in favour of generic bugle_dump_glwin_attributes
• Added .bc entries for dumping of attribute lists, particularly in EGL
• Add include dir to bugle.pc to make compilation of third-party plugins work better
• Fix crashes when using repeat counts in buffer viewer
• Fix segfault on starting command-line gldb
• Add stats_calltimes filterset
• Made specifying a command on the command-line optional

What is new in version 0.0.20090311:

• Give budgie a separate configure.ac and Makefile.am, to make cross-compilation easier
• Reverted to old version of gnulib without GPLv3 code
• Fix missing symbol globjects_delete_single in ES2.0 port
• Fix compilation errors due to ssize_t not being defined
• Fix extraction of uniforms
• Tweaks to the debug protocol and fixes to the related code
• Updated protocol documentation as part of the user manual
• Support stopping on shader compilation or link failure
• Display of info log
• Fix Windows build of the debugger filter-set
• Fix compilation error in stats_nv filter-set
• Fix display of 3D textures in the debugger
• Buffer object viewer
• Support for OpenGL ES-CM 1.1 on Windows
• Fix a build problem when using Cygwin Perl in a MinGW shell
• Fix installation instructions to require building GLEW from source
• Fix an array overrun during startup in the camera filter-set

Requirements:

• GCC