I tried disabling the joystick code today with --disable-joystick, for
a kernel with no joystick support, and when I try to link with SDL I
get errors from ld saying it has unresolved symbols for
SDL_Poll_Joystick, and one other joystick function (has something to
do with the number of joystics, don’t have the text of the error with
me). I thought the culprit was the joystick polling in SDL_event.c,
but after commenting it out I still got the same errors, I had to move
on but I thought I’d throw it out in the open so someone can take care
of it before someone else gets bit by this bug.
Phoenix Kokido
members.xoom.com/kokido
@Wes_Poole
I tried disabling the joystick code today with --disable-joystick, for
a kernel with no joystick support, and when I try to link with SDL I
get errors from ld saying it has unresolved symbols for
SDL_Poll_Joystick, and one other joystick function (has something to
do with the number of joystics, don’t have the text of the error with
me). I thought the culprit was the joystick polling in SDL_event.c,
but after commenting it out I still got the same errors, I had to move
on but I thought I’d throw it out in the open so someone can take care
of it before someone else gets bit by this bug.
Well, the library still works fine if you have a kernel with no joystick
support - it just reports that you have no joysticks available, but thanks
for mentioning it.
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
I was using Corel Linux, and when I compiled SDL with the Joystick
support in it tried to link with a .h file that was’nt on the system
(I wanna say joystick.h, but don’t remember for sure), that’s why I
disabled support in the first place.
Phoenix Kokido
members.xoom.com/kokido
@Wes_Poole
Sam Lantinga wrote:> > I tried disabling the joystick code today with --disable-joystick, for
a kernel with no joystick support, and when I try to link with SDL I
get errors from ld saying it has unresolved symbols for
SDL_Poll_Joystick, and one other joystick function (has something to
do with the number of joystics, don’t have the text of the error with
me). I thought the culprit was the joystick polling in SDL_event.c,
but after commenting it out I still got the same errors, I had to move
on but I thought I’d throw it out in the open so someone can take care
of it before someone else gets bit by this bug.
Well, the library still works fine if you have a kernel with no joystick
support - it just reports that you have no joysticks available, but thanks
for mentioning it.
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec
I was using Corel Linux, and when I compiled SDL with the Joystick
support in it tried to link with a .h file that was’nt on the system
(I wanna say joystick.h, but don’t remember for sure), that’s why I
disabled support in the first place.
Okay, that will be fixed sometime soon. 
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec