Sharp Zaurus and SDL

Hello fellow developers,

I’ve been reading much about the Sharp Zaurus PDA on the Internet. I also
found
out that several SDL applications were ported to the Sharp Zaurus platform.

I was wondering, what’s needed for the compilation of the SDL library for
the
Sharp Zaurus platform? Since I don’t have the necesarry funds to buy this
device
so this means I’m looking for a cross-compiler solution. (I know that there
are ARM
cross-compiler files available for the Sharp Zaurus for the linux platform).

If anybody can point me to tips/websites about (SDL) development for the
Sharp
Zaurus this would be grately appreciated.

Regards,

Niels Wagenaar

I don’t know anything about cross-compiling SDL, but there’s lots of
info on cross-compiling regular apps. to ARM for the Zaurus.

So far as SDL is concerned, you can just use statically-linked (.a) or
dynamically linked (.so, available in .ipk packages for the Zaurus)
SDL libraries.

So far as your app. is concerned, just make sure it’s 240x320
(I think one port of SDL supports 320x240 and does rotation for you)

If you grab my game “Mad Bomber” as source, I believe the Makefile has
my own cross-compile target. Not elegant (compared to, say,
“configure --target=…”) but it works. :slight_smile:

-bill!On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:53:32PM +0200, Niels Wagenaar wrote:

I was wondering, what’s needed for the compilation of the SDL library for
the Sharp Zaurus platform? Since I don’t have the necesarry funds to buy this
device so this means I’m looking for a cross-compiler solution. (I know that
there are ARM cross-compiler files available for the Sharp Zaurus for the
linux platform).