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NathanA
Thu, Jul 6, 2017 1:47 AM

Hi,

I want to run OpenSCAD in AWS Lambda. Does it still require Xvfb to run
headless?

AWS Lambda runs Amazon Linux (which is its own challenge since I'll have to
figure out which flavor binary will work - or install from source with all
dependencies, which seems time consuming). Of course it runs in headless -
which I have gotten to run on Ubuntu before but years ago and at the time it
required Xvfb. Is that still true?

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Hi, I want to run OpenSCAD in AWS Lambda. Does it still require Xvfb to run headless? AWS Lambda runs Amazon Linux (which is its own challenge since I'll have to figure out which flavor binary will work - or install from source with all dependencies, which seems time consuming). Of course it runs in headless - which I have gotten to run on Ubuntu before but years ago and at the time it required Xvfb. Is that still true? -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Headless-Openscad-tp21779.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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Marius Kintel
Thu, Jul 6, 2017 1:55 AM

On Jul 5, 2017, at 21:47, NathanA napter@gmail.com wrote:

I want to run OpenSCAD in AWS Lambda. Does it still require Xvfb to run
headless?

Yes, we’re using X11 to acquire an OpenGL context.

We don’t have any plans to change this, but if anyone wants to play with other ways of using OpenGL under Linux that would be a good project.

-Marius

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 21:47, NathanA <napter@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to run OpenSCAD in AWS Lambda. Does it still require Xvfb to run > headless? > Yes, we’re using X11 to acquire an OpenGL context. We don’t have any plans to change this, but if anyone wants to play with other ways of using OpenGL under Linux that would be a good project. -Marius