[SDL] Re: Floating point revolution

[Eric Vidal]

cyberquiet wrote:
> Sorry, I must have overlooked your post when I searched the mailing list 
> before posting the mine...
> How can I get the version with floating point buffers support? The SDL 
> website only explains how to get SDL-1.2 from CVS.
> I'm a bit a newbie with CVS, so forgive me if I made a stupid question.

I wasn't able to get it directly through CVS either, but you should be 
able to find a snapshot from http://www.libsdl.org/cvs/.  Be sure to 
read README.CVS and INSTALL in the archive!  (I'm not even sure whether 
the SDL-1.3 CVS snapshot has been updated to the latest CVS -- it looks 
like half a year old -- so I just assumed that no one has been working 
on it for a long time.)

You will then need to patch it before compiling.  You should be able to 
find the patch in the May 2005 archive (look for "render target" or 
something under my name).

FYI:  To apply the patch, go to the SDL-1.3 directory and execute the 
command  patch -p1 < where_you_put_the_patch_file/SDL-1.3.diff


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Eric Vidal
Lecturer / Graduate Research Assistant, DISCS
Ateneo de Manila University
http://aegis.ateneo.net/evidal/