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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:20:33 -0800 From: Eric Wing Subject: SDL/Universal Binary updates Hi Sam, Attached is a big set of changes to the Xcode projects to support Universal Binaries. I have also included .dmgs that include the prebuilt frameworks. Ryan, I also updated SMPEG which is also in the package. The SDL and smpeg binaries were built against the CVS version (pulled maybe a month ago?). I do not have an Intel Mac to test on so I have no idea if this stuff actually works. However, Christian Walther has been a big help in testing 10.2.8 and 10.3.9 so I'm fairly confident we got the build settings correct for at least PPC. I have attempted to document the important things for producing these Universal Binaries. Documentation is somewhat scattered through out everything, but there is a big centralized piece of documentation in the UniversalBinaryNotes.rtf in the SDL.dmg. As far as Universal Binaries are concerned, the big things were: - Build with gcc 3.3 on PPC, 4.0 on Intel. - We couldn't get any of the MMX/SSE code to compile/link (SDL and smpeg). - All 3rd party dependencies had to be rebuilt as Universal There were also a bunch of non-Universal things that have been updated: - I converted the SDL-satellites to create .dmg's instead of .pkg installers - Updated all 3rd party static libraries with current versions. (I think libpng was the most dramatic going from 1.0.? to 1.2.8 with API breakage. I haven't found any problems so far in doing this.) - Changed some compiler optimization settings - Finally updated the exports list for SDL_mixer - Tried to include a static smpeg in SDL_mixer (multiple build variants in Xcode project now) - Enabled Altivec in SDL (we forgot to add the flags to Xcode last time) - More documentation Since so many things have changed, there might be new problems introduced. The big issue I've found so far is with SDL_mixer. As I mentioned on the mailing list, MP3's produce an assertion failure. And the MikMod problem reported on Bugzilla continues to persist. There's probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting. There really were hundreds of little things I mucked with so it's hard to remember them all. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks, Eric
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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 SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to
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16 several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Java, Lua, ML,
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19 The current version supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS, MacOS X,
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20 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains
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21 support for Windows CE, AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, NetBSD, AIX, OSF/Tru64,
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22 RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported.
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24 This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2, which can be
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25 found in the file "COPYING". This license allows you to use SDL
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26 freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic
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29 The best way to learn how to use SDL is to check out the header files in
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31 The header files and test programs are well commented and always up to date.
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32 More documentation is available in HTML format in "./docs/index.html"
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34 The test programs in the "test" subdirectory are in the public domain.
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36 Frequently asked questions are answered online:
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39 If you need help with the library, or just want to discuss SDL related
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