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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:38:22 +0200 From: "Mike Gorchak" Subject: Re: About QNX support in SDL 1.3 Here is another batch of patches. 1) Makefile.in - added SDL_opengles.h header as header to install. 2) configure.in - Added special define to detect Common Lite OpenGL ES library in case if Common library is not installed. Added check for clock_gettime in libc (in QNX it is in libc). 3) SDL_config.h.in - Added SDL_VIDEO_RENDER_OPENGL_ES and SDL_VIDEO_OPENGL_ES declarations for configure script autodetection. 4) SDL_opengles.h - Added GL_API definition if it is not defined. Added extension GL_OES_draw_texture because OpenGL ES Renderer uses it without declaration. Added GL_OES_vertex_buffer_object extension, which is supported under QNX OpenGL ES. Added GL_OES_single_precision extension. 5) To the test directory I've added building OpenGL ES test applications through the autotools suite. Was support for iPhone IDE building only.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:10:47 +0000
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* Porting To A New Platform

  The first thing you have to do when porting to a new platform, is look at
include/SDL_platform.h and create an entry there for your operating system.
The standard format is __PLATFORM__, where PLATFORM is the name of the OS.
Ideally SDL_platform.h will be able to auto-detect the system it's building
on based on C preprocessor symbols.

There are two basic ways of building SDL at the moment:

1. The "UNIX" way:  ./configure; make; make install

   If you have a GNUish system, then you might try this.  Edit configure.in,
   take a look at the large section labelled:
	"Set up the configuration based on the target platform!"
   Add a section for your platform, and then re-run autogen.sh and build!

2. Using an IDE:

   If you're using an IDE or other non-configure build system, you'll probably
   want to create a custom SDL_config.h for your platform.  Edit SDL_config.h,
   add a section for your platform, and create a custom SDL_config_{platform}.h,
   based on SDL_config.h.minimal and SDL_config.h.in

   Add the top level include directory to the header search path, and then add
   the following sources to the project:
	src/*.c
	src/audio/*.c
	src/cdrom/*.c
	src/cpuinfo/*.c
	src/events/*.c
	src/file/*.c
	src/joystick/*.c
	src/stdlib/*.c
	src/thread/*.c
	src/timer/*.c
	src/video/*.c
	src/audio/disk/*.c
	src/audio/dummy/*.c
	src/video/dummy/*.c
	src/joystick/dummy/*.c
	src/cdrom/dummy/*.c
	src/thread/generic/*.c
	src/timer/dummy/*.c
	src/loadso/dummy/*.c


Once you have a working library without any drivers, you can go back to each
of the major subsystems and start implementing drivers for your platform.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on the SDL mailing list:
	http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php

Enjoy!
	Sam Lantinga				(slouken@libsdl.org)