view test/acinclude.m4 @ 4167:a6f635e5eaa6 SDL-1.2

Fixed bug #611 From Tim Angus 2008-08-12 11:18:06 I'm one of the maintainers of ioquake3.org, an updated version of the Quake 3 engine. Relatively recently, we moved ioq3 to use SDL as a replacement for 95% of the platform specific code that was there. On the whole it's doing a great job but unfortunately since the move we've been getting complaints about the quality of the mouse input on the Windows platform to the point where for many the game is unplayable. Put in other terms, the current stable SDL 1.2 is basically not fit for purpose if you need high quality mouse input as you do in a first person shooter. Over the weekend I decided to pull my finger out and actually figure out what's going on. There are basically two major problems. Firstly, when using the "windib" driver, mouse input is gathered via the WM_MOUSEMOVE message. Googling for this indicates that often this is known to result in "spurious" and/or "missing" mouse movement events; this is the primary cause of the poor mouse input. The second problem is that the "directx" driver does not work at all in combination with OpenGL meaning that you can't use DirectInput if your application also uses OpenGL. In other words you're locked into using the "windib" driver and its poor mouse input. In order to address these problems I've done the following: * Remove WM_MOUSEMOVE based motion event generation and replace with calls to GetCursorPos which seems much more reliable. In order to achieve this I've moved mouse motion out into a separate function that is called once per DIB_PumpEvents. * Remove the restriction on the "directx" driver being inoperable in combination with OpenGL. There is a bug for this issues that I've hijacked to a certain extent (http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265). I'm the first to admit I don't really understand why this restriction is there in the first place. The commit message for the bug fix that introduced this restriction (r581) isn't very elaborate and I couldn't see any other bug tracking the issue. If anyone has more information on the bug that was avoided by r581 it would be helpful as I/someone could then look into addressing the problem without disabling the "directx" driver. * I've also removed the restriction on not being allowed to use DirectInput in windowed mode. I couldn't see any reason for this, at least not from our perspective. I have my suspicions that it'll be something like matching up the cursor with the mouse coordinates... * I bumped up the DirectInput API used to version 7 in order to get access to mouse buttons 4-7. I've had to inject a little bit of the DX7 headers into SDL there as the MinGW ones aren't up to date in this respect.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:43:36 +0000
parents 91063c450171
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# Configure paths for SDL
# Sam Lantinga 9/21/99
# stolen from Manish Singh
# stolen back from Frank Belew
# stolen from Manish Singh
# Shamelessly stolen from Owen Taylor

dnl AM_PATH_SDL([MINIMUM-VERSION, [ACTION-IF-FOUND [, ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]]])
dnl Test for SDL, and define SDL_CFLAGS and SDL_LIBS
dnl
AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_SDL],
[dnl 
dnl Get the cflags and libraries from the sdl-config script
dnl
AC_ARG_WITH(sdl-prefix,[  --with-sdl-prefix=PFX   Prefix where SDL is installed (optional)],
            sdl_prefix="$withval", sdl_prefix="")
AC_ARG_WITH(sdl-exec-prefix,[  --with-sdl-exec-prefix=PFX Exec prefix where SDL is installed (optional)],
            sdl_exec_prefix="$withval", sdl_exec_prefix="")
AC_ARG_ENABLE(sdltest, [  --disable-sdltest       Do not try to compile and run a test SDL program],
		    , enable_sdltest=yes)

  if test x$sdl_exec_prefix != x ; then
    sdl_args="$sdl_args --exec-prefix=$sdl_exec_prefix"
    if test x${SDL_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then
       SDL_CONFIG=$sdl_exec_prefix/bin/sdl-config
    fi
  fi
  if test x$sdl_prefix != x ; then
    sdl_args="$sdl_args --prefix=$sdl_prefix"
    if test x${SDL_CONFIG+set} != xset ; then
       SDL_CONFIG=$sdl_prefix/bin/sdl-config
    fi
  fi

  if test "x$prefix" != xNONE; then
    PATH="$prefix/bin:$prefix/usr/bin:$PATH"
  fi
  AC_PATH_PROG(SDL_CONFIG, sdl-config, no, [$PATH])
  min_sdl_version=ifelse([$1], ,0.11.0,$1)
  AC_MSG_CHECKING(for SDL - version >= $min_sdl_version)
  no_sdl=""
  if test "$SDL_CONFIG" = "no" ; then
    no_sdl=yes
  else
    SDL_CFLAGS=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdlconf_args --cflags`
    SDL_LIBS=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdlconf_args --libs`

    sdl_major_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\1/'`
    sdl_minor_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\2/'`
    sdl_micro_version=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdl_config_args --version | \
           sed 's/\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\).\([[0-9]]*\)/\3/'`
    if test "x$enable_sdltest" = "xyes" ; then
      ac_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
      ac_save_CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS"
      ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
      CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
      CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
      LIBS="$LIBS $SDL_LIBS"
dnl
dnl Now check if the installed SDL is sufficiently new. (Also sanity
dnl checks the results of sdl-config to some extent
dnl
      rm -f conf.sdltest
      AC_TRY_RUN([
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "SDL.h"

char*
my_strdup (char *str)
{
  char *new_str;
  
  if (str)
    {
      new_str = (char *)malloc ((strlen (str) + 1) * sizeof(char));
      strcpy (new_str, str);
    }
  else
    new_str = NULL;
  
  return new_str;
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int major, minor, micro;
  char *tmp_version;

  /* This hangs on some systems (?)
  system ("touch conf.sdltest");
  */
  { FILE *fp = fopen("conf.sdltest", "a"); if ( fp ) fclose(fp); }

  /* HP/UX 9 (%@#!) writes to sscanf strings */
  tmp_version = my_strdup("$min_sdl_version");
  if (sscanf(tmp_version, "%d.%d.%d", &major, &minor, &micro) != 3) {
     printf("%s, bad version string\n", "$min_sdl_version");
     exit(1);
   }

   if (($sdl_major_version > major) ||
      (($sdl_major_version == major) && ($sdl_minor_version > minor)) ||
      (($sdl_major_version == major) && ($sdl_minor_version == minor) && ($sdl_micro_version >= micro)))
    {
      return 0;
    }
  else
    {
      printf("\n*** 'sdl-config --version' returned %d.%d.%d, but the minimum version\n", $sdl_major_version, $sdl_minor_version, $sdl_micro_version);
      printf("*** of SDL required is %d.%d.%d. If sdl-config is correct, then it is\n", major, minor, micro);
      printf("*** best to upgrade to the required version.\n");
      printf("*** If sdl-config was wrong, set the environment variable SDL_CONFIG\n");
      printf("*** to point to the correct copy of sdl-config, and remove the file\n");
      printf("*** config.cache before re-running configure\n");
      return 1;
    }
}

],, no_sdl=yes,[echo $ac_n "cross compiling; assumed OK... $ac_c"])
       CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
       CXXFLAGS="$ac_save_CXXFLAGS"
       LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
     fi
  fi
  if test "x$no_sdl" = x ; then
     AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
     ifelse([$2], , :, [$2])     
  else
     AC_MSG_RESULT(no)
     if test "$SDL_CONFIG" = "no" ; then
       echo "*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found"
       echo "*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in"
       echo "*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the"
       echo "*** full path to sdl-config."
     else
       if test -f conf.sdltest ; then
        :
       else
          echo "*** Could not run SDL test program, checking why..."
          CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
          CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS $SDL_CFLAGS"
          LIBS="$LIBS $SDL_LIBS"
          AC_TRY_LINK([
#include <stdio.h>
#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{ return 0; }
#undef  main
#define main K_and_R_C_main
],      [ return 0; ],
        [ echo "*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means"
          echo "*** that the run-time linker is not finding SDL or finding the wrong"
          echo "*** version of SDL. If it is not finding SDL, you'll need to set your"
          echo "*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to point"
          echo "*** to the installed location  Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if that"
          echo "*** is required on your system"
	  echo "***"
          echo "*** If you have an old version installed, it is best to remove it, although"
          echo "*** you may also be able to get things to work by modifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH"],
        [ echo "*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the"
          echo "*** exact error that occured. This usually means SDL was incorrectly installed"
          echo "*** or that you have moved SDL since it was installed. In the latter case, you"
          echo "*** may want to edit the sdl-config script: $SDL_CONFIG" ])
          CFLAGS="$ac_save_CFLAGS"
          CXXFLAGS="$ac_save_CXXFLAGS"
          LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
       fi
     fi
     SDL_CFLAGS=""
     SDL_LIBS=""
     ifelse([$3], , :, [$3])
  fi
  AC_SUBST(SDL_CFLAGS)
  AC_SUBST(SDL_LIBS)
  rm -f conf.sdltest
])