My friend gets this error trying to run an SDL program
I wrote…he doesn’t have GGI installed and I have NO
idea whatsoever why this happens, when compiling SDL
a libSDLggi.so file isn’t even created…
Do you have any idea why this happens:
[pknet:/home/gdog/game]# ./test
Couldn’t init SDL! : Failed loading libSDLggi.so: File not found
laugh Yep, he doesn’t have the DISPLAY environment variable set.
Eventually SDL will support GGI, and hopefully all you’ll have to do
to get GGI support is drop libSDLggi.so onto your system and run the
program on the console. Heheheh.
Sam Lantinga wrote:
My friend gets this error trying to run an SDL program
I wrote…he doesn’t have GGI installed and I have NO
idea whatsoever why this happens, when compiling SDL
a libSDLggi.so file isn’t even created…
Do you have any idea why this happens:
[pknet:/home/gdog/game]# ./test
Couldn’t init SDL! : Failed loading libSDLggi.so: File not found
Ok…ok thanks. I see…
laugh Yep, he doesn’t have the DISPLAY environment variable set.
Eventually SDL will support GGI, and hopefully all you’ll have to do
to get GGI support is drop libSDLggi.so onto your system and run the
program on the console. Heheheh.
Man…IMHO…I doubt GGI will EVER be put into the kernel…I don’t think
Linus will ever do it…
Simply because I read something on Slashdot that talks about Linus thinking
GGI is too bloated
and would require too many changes to the kernel. They said that instead of
GGI they are planning
on implementing something called the Framebuffer Console…which sounds
just as good…
I read it’ll be out by like 2.2 but dunno…you could read about it…
Oh…by the way…what’s the difference between SDL_LoBlit and
SDL_HighBlit???
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)
Paul Lowe
xpaull at ultraviolet.org