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Fixed bug #675 Description From maf6@cornell.edu 2009-01-10 14:07:52 (-) [reply] Assuming the SDL project doesn't just want to pick these up from dinput8.lib or whatever instead, the definitions in SDL_dx5video.c should be: const DIDATAFORMAT c_dfDIKeyboard = { sizeof(DIDATAFORMAT), sizeof(DIOBJECTDATAFORMAT), 0x00000002, 256, 256, KBD_fmt }; const DIDATAFORMAT c_dfDIMouse = { sizeof(DIDATAFORMAT), sizeof(DIOBJECTDATAFORMAT), 0x00000002, 16, 7, PTR_fmt }; const DIDATAFORMAT c_dfDIJoystick = { sizeof(DIDATAFORMAT), sizeof(DIOBJECTDATAFORMAT), 0x00000001, 80, 44, JOY_fmt }; This way the call to IDirectInputDevice2_SetDataFormat in SDL_dx5events.c will succeed on x64.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:49:41 +0000
parents b2b476a4a73c
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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/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)