A question about migration my application to SDL

SDL Development
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Hi all,

I’m in the process of redesigning my application, and I’m considering
SDL (which I’ve used for another, much smaller application), but
before going ahead with it, there are some uncertainties I need to
clarify. I hope someone on this list can help me with that :

  • does hardware accelerated fullscreen multimonitor support work in
    SDL 1.3 ? I know that it does NOT work in 1.2 and I really need it. My
    current version relies on DirectX (which makes it a windows-only
    application, and I want to make it portable to MacOS X) to achieve the
    multimon features

  • how stable is it for simple 2D hardware accelerated blitting ? I
    will mostly use this (+ sounds)

  • I wrote another application about a year ago wit hSDL 1.2, and it
    was a real PITA to get SDL compiled on mac… is this also the case
    with 1.3 ? I’ve looked on the website (libsdl.org) and apart from an
    svn link, there seem to be no “installable” libraries/framework that I
    can directly link to form my application. Is there some instruction
    set on getting 1.3 compiled on windows AND mac ?

  • what about other sublibraries such as SDL_ttf, SDL_image and
    SDL_mixer ? I can’t find any download links for a 1.3-compatible
    versin, let alone compilation instructions…

I know that simply getting the compiler right will be the "hardest"
part in terms of frustration, and i really want to avoid pulling my
hair out on something that turned out to be unavailable/impossible
from the start…

thanks in advance !

jeroen

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I know that it does NOT work in 1.2 and I really need it. My current version
relies on DirectX (which makes it a windows-only application, and I want to
make it portable to MacOS X) to achieve the multimon features

opengl is also a portable option that works with sdl 1.2 and possible 1.3,
i am not sure how integrated it is with sdl 1.3.

  • I wrote another application about a year ago wit hSDL 1.2, and it was a
    real PITA to get SDL compiled on mac… is this also the case with 1.3 ? I’ve
    looked on the website (libsdl.org) and apart from an svn link, there seem to
    be no “installable” libraries/framework that I can directly link to form my
    application. Is there some instruction set on getting 1.3 compiled on windows
    AND mac ?

i have never had a problem with sdl-1.2 on mac.

I know that simply getting the compiler right will be the “hardest” part in
terms of frustration, and i really want to avoid pulling my hair out on
something that turned out to be unavailable/impossible from the start…

i dont understand what you mean by getting the compiler right.On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, jeroen clarysse wrote:

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I know that it does NOT work in 1.2 and I really need it. My
current version relies on DirectX (which makes it a windows-only
application, and I want to make it portable to MacOS X) to achieve
the multimon features

opengl is also a portable option that works with sdl 1.2 and
possible 1.3, i am not sure how integrated it is with sdl 1.3.

if openGL integration we’re not up-to-par in 1.3, would that mean “no
hardware accelerated bltting” ? the application is meant to be used
for psychology experiments, and is very much time-critical…

I know that simply getting the compiler right will be the "hardest"
part in terms of frustration, and i really want to avoid pulling my
hair out on something that turned out to be unavailable/impossible
from the start…

i dont understand what you mean by getting the compiler right.

I mainly mean “setting all file, compiler and project options so that
the code compiles”… with 1.2, it took me a full day to figure out
which packages to include where form specific locations on my
filesystem. Almost gave up on it :frowning: must admit that i’m not an expert
in this field)