OT: Started a blog about D, OpenGL and SDL

[Mike Parker]

Olli Aalto wrote:
> Mike Parker wrote:

> By any chance do you know what needs to be done for derelict's SDL to 
> work on a mac? I have one and I've probably got some time during the 
> weekend, so I could give it a shot. I just need to know a little bit 
> more of the problem.
> 
> O.

Apparently SDL_main does some sort of trickery that is a necessity, so 
just loading in the SDL framework isn't enough to run an SDL app. 
Whatever SDL_main is doing needs to be done by Derelict as well. I find 
that rather poor design. IMO SDL_main should only be a convenience, not 
a necessity, and any setup should be handled in SDL_Init. But, nothing I 
can do about that.

Derelict should be playing nice with GDC. Anders submitted a patch a 
while ago to make it do so. I suppose it's working, because the last 
time someone tried to get Derelict up and running on the Mac they got 
things compiling (then got bit by the SDL_main problem).

The only other concern is Bud. If Bud isn't working on the Mac, then 
that means we'll need a Makefile system to build the Derelict libs. So a 
priority of anyone getting working on Macifying Derelict should be to 
get Bud functioning first.

As you can see, it's a bit of an involved task :)