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Re: SDL Interface Development
On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:48, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:28, ejessen@adelphia.net wrote:
> > [not including the libraries in the build raises] the barrier to entry so
> high, that
> > nobody but the most fanatical will attempt to maintain
> > the code. Which means the program will die out when
> > the fanatics move on.
>
> Insightful.
>
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:52, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> > Just to chime in from the Solaris camp - this all sounds great, as long as
> > the dependent libraries are reasonably cross-platform and the build for
> > non-Linux/Windows machines (is that the diplomatic way to say "real Unix"
> > machines? :-) doesn't become untenable.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Here's a quick 'fact check' listing the library dependancies and weather or
> not they currently support Linux, Sun, and Windows platforms:
>
> Libary Linux Mac 9 Mac OSX Sun Windows
> ------ ----- ------ --------- ----- ---------
>
> libsdl X X X X X
> paragui X X X ? X
> FreeType X X X X X
> Zlib X ? ? ? X
> libpng X X X X X
> SDL_Image X X X X X
> Expat X X X X X
> OpenGL X X X X X
zlib is available on MacOS X, although one might need to download it via
Fink (the MacOS X port of apt-get).
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Lincoln Peters
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You will gain money by an immoral action.