Android activity LoadLibrary suggestion

SDL Development
1

I have a suggestion for loading JNI libraries from SDLActivity.
Instead of having this:

// Load the .so
static {
    System.loadLibrary("SDL2");
    System.loadLibrary("SDL2_mixer");
    System.loadLibrary("Box2D");
    System.loadLibrary("SDL2_net");
    System.loadLibrary("SDL2_image"); 
    System.loadLibrary("MyLibrary1");
    System.loadLibrary("MyLibrary2");
}

Why not having a virtual method that is called by the SDL activity and implemented in the game activity to do this loadings?
The problem with the current approach is that if I update to a new SDL version, I lose my LoadLibrary statements.

2

Great idea… Anybody know why we didn’t do that in the first place?

Can you submit a bug to bugzilla, with a tested patch for review?

Thanks!On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Limanima <jorge.raposo.lima at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a suggestion for loading JNI libraries from SDLActivity.
Instead of having this:

// Load the .so
static {
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_mixer”);
System.loadLibrary(“Box2D”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_net”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_image”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary1”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary2”);
}

Why not having a virtual method that is called by the SDL activity and
implemented in the game activity to do this loadings?
The problem with the current approach is that if I update to a new SDL
version, I lose my LoadLibrary statements.

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SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

3

IIRC we attempted this and it didn’t work…doesn’t hurt to try though!

2014-08-07 14:55 GMT-07:00 Sam Lantinga :> Great idea… Anybody know why we didn’t do that in the first place?

Can you submit a bug to bugzilla, with a tested patch for review?

Thanks!

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Limanima <jorge.raposo.lima at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a suggestion for loading JNI libraries from SDLActivity.
Instead of having this:

// Load the .so
static {
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_mixer”);
System.loadLibrary(“Box2D”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_net”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_image”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary1”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary2”);
}

Why not having a virtual method that is called by the SDL activity and
implemented in the game activity to do this loadings?
The problem with the current approach is that if I update to a new SDL
version, I lose my LoadLibrary statements.

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

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SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

–
Gabriel.

4

gabomdq wrote:> IIRC we attempted this and it didn’t work…doesn’t hurt to try though!

2014-08-07 14:55 GMT-07:00 Sam Lantinga <slouken at libsdl.org (slouken at libsdl.org)>:

Great idea… Anybody know why we didn’t do that in the first place?

Can you submit a bug to bugzilla, with a tested patch for review?

Thanks!

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Limanima <@Limanima (@Limanima)> wrote:

   	I have a suggestion for loading JNI libraries from SDLActivity.

Instead of having this:

// Load the .so
static {
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_mixer”);
System.loadLibrary(“Box2D”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_net”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_image”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary1”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary2”);
}

Why not having a virtual method that is called by the SDL activity and implemented in the game activity to do this loadings?
The problem with the current approach is that if I update to a new SDL version, I lose my LoadLibrary statements.

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org (SDL at lists.libsdl.org)
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org (http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org)

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org (SDL at lists.libsdl.org)
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org (http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org)

maybe it has to be static, thats why it didn’t work?

–
Gabriel.

5

As far as i know it doesn’t work and you get unsatisfied link errors.Am 07.08.2014 23:56 schrieb “Sam Lantinga” :

Great idea… Anybody know why we didn’t do that in the first place?

Can you submit a bug to bugzilla, with a tested patch for review?

Thanks!

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Limanima <jorge.raposo.lima at gmail.com> wrote:

I have a suggestion for loading JNI libraries from SDLActivity.
Instead of having this:

// Load the .so
static {
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_mixer”);
System.loadLibrary(“Box2D”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_net”);
System.loadLibrary(“SDL2_image”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary1”);
System.loadLibrary(“MyLibrary2”);
}

Why not having a virtual method that is called by the SDL activity and
implemented in the game activity to do this loadings?
The problem with the current approach is that if I update to a new SDL
version, I lose my LoadLibrary statements.

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

SDL mailing list
SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

6

M. Gerhardy wrote:

As far as i know it doesn’t work and you get unsatisfied link errors.

As soon as I get the time, I’ll try a few things and then post the results here.