Kai Sterker
Apparently, SDL2 on Haiku does not generate SDL_TEXTINPUT events.
Attached is a patch that adds this functionality.
Tested with SDLs own checkkeys program and different keymaps as well as my own SDL application and German keyboard layout to verify it generates the expected input.
Simon Hug
There are currently three entry points in the SDL2_main code for windows: main, wmain and WinMain. Only the latter two properly convert the arguments to UTF-8.
Console applications linked with MSVC will always link with the main entry point (wmain has to be selected by manually setting the entry point). This makes it likely that such programs will not have proper unicode arguments.
Simon Hug
The SDLmain file src/main/windows/SDL_windows_main.c defines both entry points for console applications, main and wmain. This seems to confuse MSVC. It outputs a LNK4067 warning and then chooses main, which is a shame because only wmain has the unicode handling. Using SDLmain.lib provided on libsdl.org, the linker also goes for main.
I'm proposing to not define the main entry point at all. wmain should be supported well enough with MSVC.
Simon Hug
The function console_wmain in src/main/windows/SDL_windows_main.c does not null terminate the argument list it is creating. As specified by the C standard, "argv[argc] shall be a null pointer."
The SDLTest framework makes use of that null pointer and some test programs can cause an access violation because it's missing.
This workaround, unfortunately, requires that apps directly link to a set of
Win32-style cursor resource files (that contain a transparent cursor image).
Copies of suitable resource files are in src/core/winrt/, and should be
included directly in an app's MSVC project.
A rough explanation of this workaround/hack, and why it's needed (and
seemingly can't be done through programmatic means), is in this change's code.
This allows us to set an explicit stack size (overriding the system default
and the global hint an app might have set), and remove all the macro salsa
for dealing with _beginthreadex and such, as internal threads always set those
to NULL anyhow.
I've taken some guesses on reasonable (and tiny!) stack sizes for our
internal threads, but some of these might turn out to be too small in
practice and need an increase. Most of them are simple functions, though.
Martin Gerhardy
Just a minor thing, but a huge outcome. All the other jni related functions already have those flags, but the nativeInit function lacks them - so it might be stripped away.
Jonas Kulla
src/main/windows/SDL_windows_main.c:137:
cmdline = SDL_iconv_string("UTF-8", "UCS-2-INTERNAL", (char *)(text), (SDL_wcslen(text)+1)*sizeof(WCHAR));
I'm trying to compile an SDL2 application for windows using the mingw-w64 32bit toolchain provided by my distro (Fedora 19). However, even the simplest test program that does nothing at all fails to startup with a "Fatal error - out of memory" message because the mingw iconv library provided by my distro does not support the "UCS-2-INTERNAL" encoding and the conversion returns null.
From my little bit of research, it turns out that even though this encoding is supported by the external GNU libiconv library, some glibc versions (?) don't support it with their internal iconv routines, and will instead provide the native endian encoding when "UCS-2" is specified.
Nonetheless, I wonder why the native endianness is considered in the first place when Windows doesn't even run on any big endian archs (to my knowledge). And true enough, 'WIN_StringToUTF8' from core/windows/SDL_windows.h is used everywhere else in the windows backend, which is just a macro to iconv with "UTF-16LE" as source. Therefore it would IMO make sense to use this macro here as well, which would solve my problem (patch attached).
Pablo Mayobre
When generating a signed app with SDL 2.0.3 an issue comes up, watching at the Error Log points out that the issue lies in the src/main/android/SDL_android_main.c where the process name is defined as "SDL_app", this name turns into an erroneous name so it should be changed to "app_process"
SDL 2.x recently accepted patches to enable OpenGL ES 2 support via Google's ANGLE library. The thought is to try to eventually merge SDL/WinRT's OpenGL code with SDL-official's.
