# GLMakie running on WSLg

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-running-on-wslg/89239>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** package\
**Created:** [October 25, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-running-on-wslg/89239 "2022-10-25T08:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Audrius-St](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/audrius-st/32/24175_2.png) [@Audrius-St](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Audrius-St)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 8:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-running-on-wslg/89239/1 "2022-10-25T08:03:51Z")

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Hello,

Tried the following on a whim, thought I’d mention it in passing.

After the most recent WSLg [Windows Subsystem for Linux] release, GLMakie now compiles, runs, and displays images.

Tested with some 2D plots and the Makie front-page Lorenz attractor code.

```julia
> wsl --version
WSL version: 0.70.4.0
Kernel version: 5.15.68.1
WSLg version: 1.0.45
MSRDC version: 1.2.3575
Direct3D version: 1.606.4
DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp
Windows version: 10.0.22623.870

```

Previously, GLMakie failed to compile due to only an older OpenGL version  
being supported. At least this was the case on my system.

```julia
$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Mesa/X.org (0xffffffff)
    Device: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0, 256 bits) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 21.2.6
    Accelerated: no
    Video memory: 26053MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 4.5
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa/X.org
OpenGL renderer string: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0, 256 bits)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

```

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**Author:** ![sdanisch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sdanisch/32/1406_2.png) [@sdanisch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sdanisch)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-running-on-wslg/89239/2 "2022-10-25T08:55:57Z")

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Yup! It’s pretty amazing. On windows 11 I also had to do nothing at all and it just worked without problems 🙂 Has been like that for a couple of months I think!  
With NVIDIA GPUs at least, it’s even fully hardware accelerated from the start:

```julia
simi@simi-lappen:~$ glxinfo -B
name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
    Vendor: Microsoft Corporation (0xffffffff)
    Device: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU) (0xffffffff)
    Version: 21.2.6
    Accelerated: yes
    Video memory: 22306MB
    Unified memory: no
    Preferred profile: core (0x1)
    Max core profile version: 3.3
    Max compat profile version: 3.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.0
OpenGL vendor string: Microsoft Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: D3D12 (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU)
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

OpenGL version string: 3.1 Mesa 21.2.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.40
OpenGL context flags: (none)

```