Irrlicht fails to create a GLX context when passed a SDL2-created Window

I am trying to get Irrlicht to be using a window I created using SDL2 under X11, but it fails within Irrlicht at GLXCreateWindow.

On my box the following MCVE reproduces the issue:

#include <irrlicht/irrlicht.h>
#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
#include <SDL2/SDL_syswm.h>

int main()
{
    SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);

    SDL_Window* window = SDL_CreateWindow("Hello",
        SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED, SDL_WINDOWPOS_CENTERED,
        800, 600,
        SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL);

    if (!window)
    {
        return false;
    }

    SDL_SysWMinfo wm_info;
    SDL_VERSION(&wm_info.version);

    if (!SDL_GetWindowWMInfo(window, &wm_info))
    {
        return false;
    }

    irr::SIrrlichtCreationParameters params;
    params.DeviceType = irr::EIDT_BEST;
    params.DriverType = irr::video::EDT_OPENGL;
    params.WindowSize = { 800, 600 };
    params.WindowId = reinterpret_cast<void*>(wm_info.info.x11.window);
    irr::createDeviceEx(params);
}

This results in the following error:

Irrlicht Engine version 1.9.0
Linux 4.16.16-1-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 19 20:30:54 CEST 2018 x86_64
X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  31 (X_GLXCreateWindow)
  Serial number of failed request:  364
  Current serial number in output stream:  365

If you comment out the WindowId set Irrlicht will create its own window, which succeeds.

Irrlicht Engine version 1.9.0
Linux 4.16.16-1-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 19 20:30:54 CEST 2018 x86_64
Using renderer: OpenGL 4.4
Radeon RX 580 Series (POLARIS10, DRM 3.23.0, 4.16.16-1-ck, LLVM 7.0.0): X.Org
OpenGL driver version is 1.2 or better.
GLSL version: 4.4

I tried to troubleshoot the issue but unfortunately I have no idea how to debug X11 errors like those. However, as per the docs, "BadMatch is generated if win was not created with a visual that corresponds to config, or if config does not support rendering to windows (i.e., GLX_DRAWABLE_TYPE does not contain GLX_WINDOW_BIT)."

Some of my attempts included, to no avail:

Setting params.Bits to 16, 24 and 32.
Using Irrlicht 1.7 and 1.9.0 SVN (built as of today).
Setting the Irrlicht render backend to software rendering works, as it doesn't try to create a GLX context.
Setting params.LoggingLevel = ELL_DEBUG; as it would hopefully print useful info on the problem, but doesn't.
Setting params.IgnoreInput = true;.
Toggling the SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL flag in SDL_CreateWindow.
Using apitrace to try to figure out details on errors, or at least obviously invalid parameters, but I couldn't find it out, especially as it doesn't seem to simply track X11 calls, only GLX and OpenGL calls.

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