Thanks Peter Würtz! So it seems the workaround can be simplified to
import ctypes ctypes.CDLL('libGL.so.1', ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
or
import ctypes.util ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library('GL'), ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
Thanks Peter Würtz! So it seems the workaround can be simplified to
import ctypes CDLL('libGL. so.1', ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
ctypes.
or
import ctypes.util CDLL(ctypes. util.find_ library( 'GL'), ctypes.RTLD_GLOBAL)
ctypes.