SDL-1.2.5 & DirectFB

SDL Development
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I’m trying to compile SDL with directfb support…

I have installed DirecrFB 0.9.18, and it seems to be working fine…
I can run:

mplayer -dvd 1 -vo dfbmga:nospic

and it plays fine… (dfbmga is part of the DirectFB, wich ouputs your
display on your second head of a Matrox G400 DH, TV-out)

I’ve given it the command line optoin of --enable-video-directfb (which
I dont think i even need to becuae the defualt is yes)

this is on a RH9 system, and they put stuff in /usr/local/include

/usr/local/include/
/usr/local/lib

I’ve tried looking at the configure script… but got confused…

could someone help me out here ???

tahnk for your time,

Scott

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I’m trying to compile SDL with directfb support…

What’s the error message you’re getting?
Have you tried downloading the CVS version of SDL?

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

I’m trying to compile SDL with directfb support…

What’s the error message you’re getting?
Have you tried downloading the CVS version of SDL?

No error message… but when I complie it says:

checking for DirectFB support… no

I “beleive” I need to know how to tell SDL about my DirectDB install.
Then at least, if it has a problem… it should give an error msg.

Scott

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Well, as with most redhat packages, there is also a devel package which
contains the headers and libaries you would need to link with. If you
installed DirectFB with a package, did you install this package as well
(if it even exists)? If you installed from source, the headers/libs
should be there already.

  • Mik Mifflin
    @Mik_MifflinOn Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:00:08 -0400 “R. Scott Baer” wrote:

No error message… but when I complie it says:

checking for DirectFB support… no

I “beleive” I need to know how to tell SDL about my DirectDB install.
Then at least, if it has a problem… it should give an error msg.

Scott

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“R. Scott Baer” wrote:

No error message… but when I complie it says:

checking for DirectFB support… no

I “beleive” I need to know how to tell SDL about my DirectDB install.
Then at least, if it has a problem… it should give an error msg.

Scott

Well, as with most redhat packages, there is also a devel package which
contains the headers and libaries you would need to link with. If you
installed DirectFB with a package, did you install this package as well
(if it even exists)? If you installed from source, the headers/libs
should be there already.

I installed from source… build 0.9.18

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R. Scott Baer wrote:

“R. Scott Baer” wrote:

No error message… but when I complie it says:

checking for DirectFB support… no

I “beleive” I need to know how to tell SDL about my DirectDB install.
Then at least, if it has a problem… it should give an error msg

I had to:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/

I figured this out by looking at the config.log file… which someone mentioned in the IQC chat, but at the time I didn’t get it. Finaly did, and it does now complie. Off to chace the next problem. (not SDL related… )

Thanks for all your help,

Scott