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Fixed bug #935 Patrice Mandin Hello, I originally added pth support for threads in SDL 1.2 because on the Atari platform we did not have any thread library. I think pth support could be removed from SDL 1.3 for two reasons: - Atari platform removed - pth does not provides real (preemptive) threads, because it is user space, and expect the application to call one of its function to give CPU to another thread. So it is not exactly useful for applications, that expect threads to run simultaneously.
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2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
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9 http://www.libsdl.org/
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11 This is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a general API that provides low
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12 level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL,
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13 and 2D framebuffer across multiple platforms.
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15 The current version supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS,
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16 Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX.
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17 The code contains support for AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, and SymbianOS,
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18 but these are not officially supported.
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20 SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to
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21 several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria,
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22 Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP,
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25 This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2, which can be
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26 found in the file "COPYING". This license allows you to use SDL
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27 freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic
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28 library.
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30 The best way to learn how to use SDL is to check out the header files in
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31 the "include" subdirectory and the programs in the "test" subdirectory.
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32 The header files and test programs are well commented and always up to date.
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33 More documentation is available in HTML format in "docs/index.html", and
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34 a documentation wiki is available online at:
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37 The test programs in the "test" subdirectory are in the public domain.
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42 If you need help with the library, or just want to discuss SDL related
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