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Hi, I have prepared a set of patches to readd WindowsCE support to SDL 1.3. I've created a new GAPI/Rawframebuffer and a DirectDraw renderer. Both renderers are work in progress and there are several unimplemented cases. (Notably RenderLine/RenderPoint/RenderFill/QueryTexturePixels/UpdateTexture and texture blending ) Nevertheless I am successfully using these renderers together with the SDL software renderer. (On most devices the SDL software renderer will be much faster as there are only badly optimized vendor drivers available) I send these patches now in this unpolished state because there seems to be some interest in win ce and someone has to start supporting SDL 1.3 Now on to the patches: wince_events_window_fixes.patch fixes some wince incompatibilities and adds fullscreen support via SHFullScreen. NOTE: This patch shouldn't have any side effects on Windows, but I have NOT tested it on Windows, so please double-check. This patch doesn't dependent on the following ones. wince_renderers_system.patch This patch does all necessary modifications to the SDL system. - it adds the renderers to the configure system - it adds the renderers to win32video SDL_ceddrawrender.c SDL_ceddrawrender.h SDL_gapirender_c.h SDL_gapirender.c SDL_gapirender.h these files add the new render drivers and should be placed in src/video/win32 Some notes to people who want to test this: - I have only compiled sdl with ming32ce, so the VisualC files are not up to date - As mingw32ce has no ddraw.h this file must be taken from the MS SDK and modified to work with gcc - I had to modify line 2611 in configure.in to EXTRA_LDFLAGS="$EXTRA_LDFLAGS -lcoredll -lcommctrl -lmmtimer -Wl,--image-base -Wl,0x10000" otherwise GetCPinfo wouldn't link. If someone knows whats causing this I'd be happy to hear about it. It would be great if these patches could make their way into SVN as this would make collaboration much much easier. I'm out of office for the next week and therefore will be unavailable via email. Regards Stefan
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:44:46 +0000
parents d72a0dd80e8b
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SDL on DirectFB

Supports:

- Hardware YUV overlays
- OpenGL - software only
- 2D/3D accelerations (depends on directfb driver)
- multiple displays
- windows

What you need:

DirectFB 1.0.1, 1.2.x, 1.3.0
Kernel-Framebuffer support: required: vesafb, radeonfb .... 
Mesa 7.0.x	   - optional for OpenGL

/etc/directfbrc

This file should contain the following lines to make
your joystick work and avoid crashes:
------------------------
disable-module=joystick
disable-module=cle266
disable-module=cyber5k
no-linux-input-grab
------------------------

To disable to use x11 backend when DISPLAY variable is found use

export SDL_DIRECTFB_X11_CHECK=0

To disable the use of linux input devices, i.e. multimice/multikeyboard support,
use

export SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT=0

To use hardware accelerated YUV-overlays for YUV-textures, use:

export SDL_DIRECTFB_YUV_DIRECT=1

This is disabled by default. It will only support one 
YUV texture, namely the first. Every other YUV texture will be
rendered in software.

In addition, you may use (directfb-1.2.x)

export SDL_DIRECTFB_YUV_UNDERLAY=1

to make the YUV texture an underlay. This will make the cursor to
be shown.

Simple Window Manager
=====================

The driver has support for a very, very basic window manager you may
want to use when runnning with "wm=default". Use

export SDL_DIRECTFB_WM=1

to enable basic window borders. In order to have the window title rendered,
you need to have the following font installed:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf

OPENGL Support
==============

As of this writing 20070810 you need to pull Mesa from git and do the following:

------------------------
cd mesa 
make linux-directfb
make

echo Installing - please enter sudo pw.

sudo make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/dfb_GL
cd src/mesa/drivers/directfb
make
sudo make install INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/dfb_GL
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To run the SDL - testprograms:

export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directfb
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/dfb_GL/lib
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/dfb_GL/libGL.so.7

./testgl