Exult almost completely ported to SDL3

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Our Team member Dragon Baroque has done a fantastic job getting Exult ported to SDL3.

Confirmed to be working are Linux and macOS. iOS and Android are being held back by an SDL3 bug SDL3 [iOS] [Android] finger touch screen coordinates only updated on dragging · Issue #8176 · libsdl-org/SDL · GitHub which prevents touch/mouse input from working correctly, so not thoroughly tested yet.
Windows is likely to work but needs to be confirmed.
The prototype fork is at GitHub - Dragon-Baroque/exult at exult-sdl3

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This bug is fixed, thanks!

How did the porting process go? Do you have any feedback on either the API changes or the migration documentation?

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@slouken Dragon Baroque had problems logging in so he provided a very in depth answer on our github issue dedicated to the migration.
See Porting to SDL3 · Issue #379 · exult/exult · GitHub

thanks for fixing the mouse bug. That was quite show stopper as I couldn’t imagine what went wrong in our code until I thought of checking whether it was an upstream bug. Thanks for providing all these tests to find an easy way to showcase the problem.

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You’re welcome, and thank you for the feedback! I’ve tweaked the documentation a bit to make things more clear in the future.