[fpc-pascal]SDL issues

[James Mills]

On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:15:07PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote:
> Well firstly, I am using 1.0.8 because I also use lazarus a lot.
> 
> And this stuff used to work, it changed after I upgraded mandrake. The
> code as compiled on mdk 9.0 with the same compiler still runs.
> 
> I could considder JEDI, though I am given to wonder, Daniel's headers
> are 480kb's JEDI is 14mb's. Why ? Did they translate the whole package ?
> 
> Furthermore JEDI is delphi, under FPC it can only be compiled in delphi
> mode with a few hacks thrown in (believe me I have tried). 
> But the code I am trying to maintain is plain pascal calling on the SDL
> units to get graphics - hardly a suitable situation.
> Also I am still working (albeit slowly) on an SDL port of the graph
> unit, which is now effectively halted.

Yeah the SDL binding I have on my system work wonderfully for 1.0.4 and
1.0.6 ... It's as I said perhaps some of us need to get together and
work on maintaining up-to-date bindings to the SDL library for Free Pascal. (ie: in FP mode ...)

my 2 cents
James

> 
> A.J.
> On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 12:21, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 11:59:39AM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote:
> > > > I tried mail Daniel Moissette first, but his e-mail bounces.
> > > > SDL4Freepascal does not appear to work with the latest versions of SDL.
> > > > 
> > > > Everything compiles just fine, but known-good code crashes (216) when
> > > > you run it. The first time you call SDL-init the programs die. 
> > > > This ONLY affects code compiled against the latest versions, code
> > > > compiled on earlier versions, will still run on the latest one.
> > > 
> > > eeeek, This is not good. I have programs I've written that use the
> > > wonderfull SDL ported bindings that Daniel Moissette did. It's too bad
> > > he doesn't maintain it anymore. One of us needs to get the latest SDL
> > > library and create fpc bindings... (I don't have any idea how yet, still
> > > working on creating fpc binding for sqlite www.sqlite.org )
> > 
> > I just received a mail from the Jedi developpers about SDL a few days back.
> > 
> > They said that the Jedi SDL also work with 1.0.4.
> > 
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