SDL and FreeBSD

SDL Development
1

Has anyone tried to get SDL to work with FreeBSD? If not how easy do you think it might be?

Thanks

Scott

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Has anyone tried to get SDL to work with FreeBSD? If not how easy do you think it might be?

Someone started a port, but I never heard from them again.
I think it was going well. I’d love to hear if you start a port.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/

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Hi, I’m attempting to use SDL on freebsd. I’ve tried both the 1.0
prerelease and the latest cvs, and it always dies in the configure
script. I know nothing about configure scripts unfortunately. Here’s
how it dies. I’m using FreeBSD 3.3 -stable

Mike

checking whether we are using GNU C++… yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g… yes
checking for a BSD compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking target system type… i386-unknown-freebsdelf3.3
checking for working const… yes
configure: error: Unsupported target: Please add to configure.in

4

Hi, I’m attempting to use SDL on freebsd. I’ve tried both the 1.0
prerelease and the latest cvs, and it always dies in the configure
script. I know nothing about configure scripts unfortunately. Here’s
how it dies. I’m using FreeBSD 3.3 -stable

Try changing the replacing the word in configure from “FreeBSD” to “freebsd”

-Sam Lantinga				(slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

5

Sam Lantinga wrote:

Hi, I’m attempting to use SDL on freebsd. I’ve tried both the 1.0
prerelease and the latest cvs, and it always dies in the configure
script. I know nothing about configure scripts unfortunately. Here’s
how it dies. I’m using FreeBSD 3.3 -stable

Try changing the replacing the word in configure from “FreeBSD” to “freebsd”

    -Sam Lantinga                           (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec

Thanks. That fixed the problem :slight_smile:

Mike

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Thanks. That fixed the problem :slight_smile:

Great. Can you tell me how well it works?
I’d like to add FreeBSD information to the FAQ.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
– Rich Kulawiec