[SDL] Question re SDLmain Design Concept

Sam Lantinga slouken at devolution.com
Mon Jun 5 12:50:57 PDT 2006


> if you do
>   putenv("SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directx");
> in your app, and your app links to a static C lib, and you are using SDL.DLL
> (which will always link to either MSVCRxx.DLL or its own copy of C lib), SDL
> will not see this envvar at all.

Which is why SDL_putenv() and SDL_getenv() exist. :)

	-Sam Lantinga, Senior Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment




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