From: Eric Wing
Subject: Re: Updated tarball
Attached are additional cleanups to SDLMain.m for the files in src/
main/macosx. It looks like somebody already cleaned up most of the
issues. There is one about the class interfaces being empty which
didn't look easy to fix in a meaningful way so I left them.
The current SVN trunk is missing the SDLCALL specifier at numerous locations.
It has to be added for all (possibly user provided) callbacks.
I stumbled over this while creating a makefile for the OpenWatcom compiler for
Win32.
FIXME:
Change #include <stdlib.h> to #include "SDL_stdlib.h"
Change #include <string.h> to #include "SDL_string.h"
Make sure nothing else broke because of this...
From: Christian Walther <cwalther@gmx.ch>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:13:20 +0100
Subject: [SDL] Fix for opening documents on Mac OS X < 10.4
The current code in SDLMain.m that transforms documents opened from the
Finder into command-line arguments (introduced in revision 1.14,
2005-08-11) uses the methods -[NSString lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:] and
-[NSString getCString:maxLength:encoding:], which are only available in
Mac OS X 10.4.
Compiling this code on 10.3 produces warnings, and running it (i.e.
starting an SDL application by opening a document) leads to weird
behavior which I didn't investigate in detail ("*** -[NSCFString
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:]: selector not recognized" is printed to the
console log, and the SDL window never opens).
The attached patch removes the offending calls and uses -[NSString
UTF8String] instead, which is available everywhere. Tested on 10.3.9,
and I see no reason why it shouldn't also work on 10.2 and 10.4.
Two further comments:
* The comment above the -[SDLMain application: openFile:] implementation
says "You need to have a CFBundleDocumentsType section in your
Info.plist to get this message, apparently." This is not the case in my
experience - it worked just fine with a hand-built bare-bones
application consisting only of Test.app/Contents/MacOS/test, without any
Info.plist (although you have to press the option and command keys for
such an application to accept a dragged file).
* I took the liberty of cleaning up another area of SDLMain.m: I changed
"CustomApplicationMain (argc, argv)" to "CustomApplicationMain (int
argc, char **argv)". This avoids the "type of `argv' defaults to `int'"
warnings, and I'm not sure if leaving out the types could cause problems
on platforms where an int and a char** aren't of the same size.
-Christian
To: SDL Developers <sdl@libsdl.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb@algonet.se>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:29:04 +0200
Subject: [SDL] Mac OS X Video Drivers [patch]
I've updated/added the Carbon and X11 video drivers
to the Mac OS X port of SDL 1.2 (the CVS version),
and made the Cocoa driver and runtime *optional*.
The default is still Cocoa, and the "Quartz" driver.
But you can now also use "toolbox" for Carbon, and
"x11" for running with Apple's (or other) X11 server:
export SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11
export SDL_VIDEO_GL_DRIVER=/usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.dylib
It also checks if the frameworks are available, by a:
#include <Carbon/Carbon.h> or #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
(this should make it configure on plain Darwin as well?)
Here are the new configure targets:
--enable-video-cocoa use Cocoa/Quartz video driver default=yes
--enable-video-carbon use Carbon/QuickDraw video driver default=yes
--enable-video-x11 use X11 video driver default=no
./configure --enable-video-cocoa --enable-video-carbon
--enable-video-x11 \
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib
The Carbon version is just an updated version of the old
SDL driver for Mac OS 9, and could probably be improved...
(but it does work, including the Carbon version of SDLmain)
If you disable cocoa, you can run with -framework Carbon only,
and the C version of SDL_main.c. And if you disable carbon too,
you can still use the X11 version which doesn't require SDLmain.
I updated the DrawSprocket version, but did not include it.
(no blitters or VRAM GWorlds etc. available on OS X anyway)
Besides for Mac OS 9, I don't think there's any use for it ?
And note that any performance on Mac OS X equals OpenGL anyway...
You can get "fair" software SDL results on captured CG displays,
but for decent frame rates you need to be using GL for rendering.
Finally, here is the patch itself:
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/SDL-12CVS-macvideo.patch
--anders
PS. It says "video", but as usual it applies to mouse/keyboard too.
------
To: A list for developers using the SDL library <sdl@libsdl.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb@algonet.se>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 10:02:15 +0200
Subject: [SDL] Updated Mac patch
Updated the previous Mac patch to disable Carbon by default.
Also "fixed" the SDL.spec again, so that it builds on Darwin.
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/SDL-1.2.9-mac.patch
Also applied fine to SDL12 CVS, when I tried it.
app as an openFile() message, so we have to make sure we were launched from
the Finder before accepting these as drag'n'drop documents, or they will just
duplicate what's already in argc/argv.
document associated with the app, the document(s) are passed to SDL_main()
as if they were command line arguments. Otherwise, the command line is always
empty and there is no way for the app to recover this information.