--- title: Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default description: A CodeWeavers engineer has opened a merge request to make Wine use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. Zink would be built as a Windows PE binary,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/proposed-wine-code-uses-zink-for-opengl-on-vulkan-by-default-blylzehps twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default | daily.dev og:description: A CodeWeavers engineer has opened a merge request to make Wine use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. Zink would be built as a Windows PE binary,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/proposed-wine-code-uses-zink-for-opengl-on-vulkan-by-default-blylzehps og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BLylZeHps.png og:image:alt: Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A CodeWeavers engineer has opened a merge request to make Wine use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. Zink would be built as a Windows PE binary, simplifying the OpenGL implementation path for Windows games and apps running under Wine. The change targets Mesa 26.0.3 and can be disabled via '--disable-mesa'. The rationale is fewer corner cases, simplified testing, and alignment with Vulkan as the future graphics API as hardware vendors reduce OpenGL investment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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