SDL* and GL bindings

[Anders F Björklund]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:

> Anders's:
> I assume the latest bindings are those of http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/ 
> am I right?

Yeah, although not in the zip files but *only* in the cvs section.

But I just updated the old versions that were provided by DedicateD,
and are also available from Japan: http://shinh.skr.jp/d/porting.html

A recent post included more modern/open source versions of the headers,
built from Mesa OpenGL and FreeGLUT instead of "my" SGI OpenGL and GLUT.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/2982.html

> How does one work with the bindings? I don't know if they are supposed 
> to be compiled, or just imported header-style, as no doc/readme explains 
> it.

The makefiles and sample projects are all in the CVS for now, sorry.

Basically I just include everything in sdl/*.d and link it with SDL ?
(similar to how you use it from C, so it's wasn't very documented no)

> And in any way:
> - Compilation fails (at least the easy way) because of the mismatched 
> module names. What's up with that? Why do only sdl.main and sdl.sdl have 
> module statements?

The other ones just had implicit names, since they're all in "sdl"...

> - Importing as headers should work if one doesn't use 
> SDL_InitApplication, or so I thought, but it still fails because of a 
> missing:
>   Error 42: Symbol Undefined __init_6events9SDL_Event
> caused by the "wchar unicode" of "SDL_keysym" which has a non-zero init. 
> Of course, it took me a while to figure this all out.

It should work with the mentioned Makefile, which builds a D library
(some of the SDL import modules do generate code, it's inevitable)

But when I said that I should really, really package it up better -
this is what I meant. It works for me, but I haven't documented it.


Once I update the headers to SDL 1.2.10 (etc), I will package it up too.
It will probably only work with GDC, but Derelict is good for DMD use ?

I also promised to write a tutorial for it, similar to the ones at:
http://dmedia.dprogramming.com/Main/Tutorials

--anders