This is a step towards supporting "Universal" Windows apps, when building for
Windows Phone. SDL can now build against the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK, and apps
linked to it can run, however further work and testing is required as some
previously Phone-only code appears to no longer be applicable for
Windows Phone 8.1. The Windows 8.1 code paths does seem to be preferable, but
should probably be tested and updated on a finer-grained basis.
If in doubt, use the Windows Phone 8.0 projects for now, as located in
VisualC-WinRT/WinPhone80_VS2012/
TODO:
- look at any Windows Phone specific code paths in SDL, and see if Phone 8.1
should use the Windows Phone code path(s), or the Windows 8.x or 8.1 paths
This commit also includes some base-level support for Universal apps.
TODO:
- add support for Windows Phone 8.1
- add support for satellite libs: SDL_image, SDL_ttf, and SDL_mixer
All WinRT projects have been merged into a single directory, "VisualC-WinRT",
with platform-specific variants in subdirectories off of it. This structure
has been applied to a few major SDL satellite libraries as well (SDL_image,
SDL_mixer, and SDL_ttf).
Currently, only Windows 8.0/RT and Windows Phone 8.0 targets are supported.
Windows 8.1/RT/Phone targets are planned.
Projects that use SDL_image/WinRT, and link to it via Visual Studio's
project-to-project reference system, will need to be updated, to reflect the
changes in the project structure. This can be done by:
1. removing the MSVC project(s) for SDL/WinRT
2. re-added the MSVC project(s) for SDL/WinRT
3. right-clicking on the app, or projects that use those libraries, choosing
References, removing the references to any of these projects (they'll likely
be highlighted with an exclamation mark), then re-adding them
To note, the satellite libraries that reference SDL/WinRT have been updated
already. The changes for those libraries will be pushed to hg.libsdl.org
shortly.
TODO:
- add support for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 targets, using
Microsoft's new "Universal" app support, if possible. These will be added to
a new subdirectory, or subdirectories (if more than one sets of projects are
needed, hopefully not), of "VisualC-WinRT".
- investigate NuGet support, which could allow Visual C++ to download
new copies of SDL/WinRT, its satellite libraries, and their dependencies,
from remote servers.
