x414e54
It is a bit of a pain to update the library or rely on whatever version the user has on their computer for default mappings.
So providing an easily updatable text file via SDL_GameControllerAddMappingsFromFile is still currently the most viable way. However using this replaces all mappings provided by the SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG environment variable which may have come from the user's custom Steam mapping.
There should be an easy way for games to supply extra game controller mappings to fill in the differences between SDL versions without it clobbering the SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG environment variable.
Internally the mappings could use a priority system and if the priority is lower then it will not overwrite the mappings.
For now it just assumes SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG is the highest priority, the default hardcoded are the lowest and anything set via the API is medium.
Sam
I've discovered that when building on powerpc64le (and probably powerpc64) SDL's configure script fails to detect dynamic library support, causing it to build a static library. This causes link failures due to undefined symbols later when packages link with -lSDL.
This seems to be because the included autotools package is too old to detect powerpc64le. This change corrects the problem for me but newer versions of autotools should handle it without a patch
Mark Pizzolato
On Windows with Visual Studio, when building SDL as a static library using the x86 (32bit) mode, several intrinsic operations are implemented in code in SDL_stdlib.c.
One of these, _allshr() is not properly implemented and fails for some input. As a result, some operations on 64bit data elements (long long) don't always work.
I classified this bug as a blocker since things absolutely don't work when the affected code is invoked. The affected code is only invoked when SDL is compiled in x86 mode on Visual Studio when building a SDL as a static library. This build environment isn't common, and hence the bug hasn't been noticed previously.
I reopened#2537 and mentioned this problem and provided a fix. That fix is provided again here along with test code which could be added to some of the SDL test code. This test code verifies that the x86 intrinsic routines produce the same results as the native x64 instructions which these routines emulate under the Microsoft compiler. The point of the tests is to make sure that Visual Studio x86 code produces the same results as Visual Studio x64 code. Some of the arguments (or boundary conditions) may produce different results on other compiler environments, so the tests really shouldn't be run on all compilers. The test driver only actually exercised code when the compiler defines _MSC_VER, so the driver can generically be invoked without issue.
Ozkan Sezer
On systems with old glibc, such mine with glibc-2.8, the following warning
is issued and is fixed easily by defining _GNU_SOURCE:
/home/me/SDL2-2.0.5/src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c: In function 'CalculateXRandRRefreshRate':
/home/me/SDL2-2.0.5/src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c:263: warning: implicit declaration of function 'round'
/home/me/SDL2-2.0.5/src/video/x11/SDL_x11modes.c:263: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'round'
x414e54
I have implemented Drag and Drop and Clipboard support for Wayland.
Drag and dropping files from nautilus to the testdropfile application seems to work and also copy and paste.
This no longer uses a script to generate code for every possible type
conversion or resampler. This caused a bloat in binary size and and compile
times. Now we use a handful of more generic functions and assume staying in
the CPU cache is the most important thing anyhow.
This shrinks the size of the final build (in this case: macOS X amd64, -Os to
optimize for size) by 15%. When compiling on a single core, build times drop
by about 15% too (although the previous cost was largely hidden by multicore
builds).
Alex Baines
I realized overnight that my patch probably broke text input events with UIM, and I confirmed that it does. Can't believe I overlooked that... I've been making stupid mistakes in these patches recently, sorry.
Anyway, *this* one seems to fix it properly. Knowing my luck it probably breaks something else.
Patch uses XkbFreeKeyboard to free the memory returned by XkbGetMap.
Earlier implementation called XkbFreeClientMap which frees all the maps
but not data->xkb structure itself, XkbFreeKeyboard will free maps and
the structure.
Joshua Bodine
I'm going to reopen this because configure should still accurately report whether libudev will be used. Right now it just tests whether it's enabled as an argument, not whether configure was successful in finding it.
Kai Sterker
SDL2 on Haiku so far uses Haiku-specific APIs for loading dynamic objects as add-ons, instead of using dlopen to load them as libraries. This, for example, leads to SDL_mixer not being able to load its audio backends, when compiled with standard settings.
As discussed at https://www.freelists.org/post/haikuports/SDL2-mixer-ogg-music-not-playing-and-other-stuff,2 , the best way to deal with this would be using dlopen instead of load_add_on. The following patch implements this change by dropping the Haiku-specific bits and using dlopen instead.
/home/fedora/SDL2-2.0.5/src/video/SDL_blit_N.c: In function 'calc_swizzle32':
/home/fedora/SDL2-2.0.5/src/video/SDL_blit_N.c:127:5: error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Werror=declaration-after-statement]
const vector unsigned char plus = VECUINT8_LITERAL(0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
^
Elis?e Maurer
I scratched my head for a while until I realized there's a typo in the command listed in the instructions for universal Mac builds: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/3a3a88db1fc2/docs/README-macosx.md#l24
It should say `g++-fat.sh` but instead it says `g++fat.sh`, which makes `./configure` fail with a C++ preprocessor error.
