Installing WrapX on AWS EC2 g2.2xlarge Windows 2016

stephane-lb · September 17, 2017, 11:26pm

Hey,

Because I am a Mac user I am trying to use WrapX on AWS EC2 g2.2xlarge with a windows 2016 + Nvidia driver installed. ( and vs2017 )
That’s the log, I got when I tried to do anything, I got this log :

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/stephane-lb/8565a18891decea8195d6b2e765f8203

Log WrapX AWS

[17/09/2017 22:06:16] 752  
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 "MS Shell Dlg 2" 
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 "C:/Program Files/R3DS/WrapX1.3/python2.7" 
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 makeCurrent 
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 OpenGL: 1.1.0 
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 GLSL:  
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 getProcAddress: Unable to resolve 'glGenBuffers'
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 getProcAddress: Unable to resolve 'glGenBuffersOES'
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 getProcAddress: Unable to resolve 'glGenBuffersARB'
[17/09/2017 22:06:24] 752 getProcAddress: Unable to resolve 'glGenBuffersEXT'

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Hope that helps, let me know if you have any advice,

Best Regard,

Stephane-lb

Ivan_Gubarev · September 18, 2017, 8:29pm

Hello Stephane,

As far as I can see, Amazon instances prodive only basic OpenGL support (1.1) which is not enough to run WrapX. In order to render viewport WrapX uses some functions from 3.3. If you need only scripting without GUI then you can import wrap module directly from python console (it doesn’t require OpenGL at all). But if you need viewport then you can try to use some virtualization software on your Mac (like VMware Fusion which has 30-day trial) to run WrapX. However we do not consider running Wrap/WrapX viewport in virtual machine as our priority since in the typical case one have scans with millions of polygons as well as big textures which simply do not fit in video memory in virtualized environment. So at this moment the only reliable way to run Wrap/WrapX is real Linux/Windows host.

Ivan