[SDL] Can SDL run without X?

[Bob Pendleton]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:04 +0300, Vassilis Virvilis wrote:
> shamju joseph wrote:
> > Hi 
> > Can SDL run without X on PC? I mean on linux
> > framebuffer?
> 
> Yes it runs on fbdev.
> 
> > If not any plan for framebuffer support in near
> > future?
> 
> I don't know about SDL1.3 but SDL1.2 works. The
> real question is how SDL1.3 is going to have
> multiwindow support in single buffer environments
> like fbdev?

It isn't. You only get multiple windows on systems that support multiple
windows. Otherwise you pretty much have to provide a complete windowing
system in SDL and that is *not* going to happen.

The question is a lot like asking "how is SDL going to provide sound on
a system that doesn't have a sound card?" Answer, it isn't going to do
that. SDL can only provide access to services that are already available
on the target system.

		Bob Pendleton

> 
>          .bill
> 
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