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Fixed bug #208 So, here's a patch with a reimplementation of QZ_SetIcon() that does what I described above. I apologize for the delay, I've been quite busy in the last few days. It appears to work here on 10.4.5 PPC in the limited testing that I've done; I'll try to test it on 10.3.9 and 10.2.8 as well, but that might take another week or so. Please test on i386. Regarding alpha channels, per-surface alpha, and color keys, the same semantics as for regular blits to an RGB surface should apply (for the final icon composited onto the dock), unless I made a mistake - except in one pathological case: if the icon surface has an alpha channel, its SDL_SRCALPHA flag is not set (i.e. it has been explicitly cleared, since it's on by default for RGBA surfaces), and it has a color key, plus an explicit mask was specified (instead of the one autogenerated from the colorkey), then the color-keyed areas appear black instead of transparent. I found no elegant way of fixing this, was too lazy to implement the inelegant one, and decided that it isn't worth the effort (but if someone disagrees, I can do it).
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Thu, 11 May 2006 03:45:55 +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)