[SDL] contribute to wince

Jonathan Dearborn grimfang4 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 28 10:36:45 PST 2009 

My configure.in (yesterday's SVN) doesn't have a "wince" block...  I'll try
messing around with it.  Could you post the wince block that you use?

Jonny D


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Ilya Kasnacheev <ilya.kasnacheev at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Why don't you just use a spare windows box and install eMVC on it?
>
> 2009/1/28, Stefan Klug <klug.stefan at gmx.de>:
> > Hi,
> > I did not yet have the time to look at the patches Ilya sent, so I can't
> > comment on that but here are some quick notes on the results you are
> > getting...
> >> Hmm, I don't know what I'm doing wrong, exactly...  I would think that I
> >> could use your libs with mingw32ce, but maybe not.  This is where I'm
> at:
> >>
> >> $ /opt/mingw32ce/bin/arm-wince-mingw32ce-g++ -o testSDL.exe testSDL.cpp
> >> -lSDLmain -lSDL
> >> Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"coredll.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"corelibc.lib"
> >> ' unrecognized
> >
> > I don't know where these commands are coming from. They are commands for
> >   the MS linker, propably inside SDLmain.lib, to get autolinking with
> MSVC.
> > I had lots of problems linking with import libs created by MSVC. My
> > current way is to create as much as possible using the gcc based
> > toolchain. If I absolutely have to link with a MSVC created dll, I
> > create a .def file using pexports.exe and then creating the import lib.a
> > using arm-mingw32ce-dlltool.
> > Something like:
> > Under Windows:
> > pexports.exe SDL.dll > SDL.def
> >
> > under linux:
> > arm-mingw32ce-dlltool -l SDL.dll.a -d SDL.def -D SDL.dll
> >
> >> The resulting executable runs, but hangs after creating the display
> >> surface.  Trying to fill a rect causes it to complain of illegal
> >> operations.
> >>
> >> So I should probably build my own SDL libs, but I'm having trouble
> >> there, too.  I'm building with mingw32ce as the host:
> >
> > Thats the most reliable way...
> >
> >> $ make
> >> /bin/sh ./build-scripts/updaterev.sh
> >> /bin/sh ./libtool --mode=link /opt/mingw32ce/bin/arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc
> >> -o build/libSDL.la [Lots of object files here] -O2 -g
> >> -L/opt/mingw32ce/local/lib -lm -lunicows -luser32 -lgdi32 -lmsimg32
> >> -lwinmm -no-undefined -rpath /usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32/lib
> >> -release 1.3 -version-info 0:0:0
> >>
> >> *** Warning: Linking the shared library build/libSDL.la against the
> >> non-libtool
> >> *** objects  build/version.o is not portable!
> >> rm -fr  build/.libs/libSDL.dll.a
> >> /opt/mingw32ce/bin/arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc -shared  [Lots of object
> >> files here]  -L/opt/mingw32ce/local/lib -lunicows -luser32 -lgdi32
> >> -lmsimg32 -lwinmm  -o build/.libs/SDL.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base
> >> -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker build/.libs/libSDL.dll.a
> >>
> /opt/mingw32ce/lib/gcc/arm-wince-mingw32ce/4.1.0/../../../../arm-wince-mingw32ce/bin/ld:
> >>
> >> cannot find -lunicows
> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> make: *** [build/libSDL.la] Error 1
> >>
> >> It appears that I don't have any of the libs: -lunicows -luser32 -lgdi32
> >> -lmsimg32 -lwinmm
> >> I wouldn't expect that I'd need to get more libs.  Is there something
> >> I'm missing here?
> >
> > configure picks up the mingw section in configure.in so you are
> > compiling for WIN32 not WinCE.
> > I had that problem also (See my mail "wince/gapi fixes")
> > You have to move the wince block before the mingw32 block and let it
> > match *-mingw32ce. Then rerun autogen...
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Ilya Kasnacheev
> >> <ilya.kasnacheev at gmail.com <mailto:ilya.kasnacheev at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Okay, so I've uploaded the "epic success" sdl.dll to
> >>     http://folk.poesie.ru/powder/SDL.dll
> >>
> >>     Keep in mind that you'll also need
> >>     http://folk.poesie.ru/powder/SDL.lib and
> >>     http://folk.poesie.ru/powder/SDLMain.lib to make it build.
> >>
> >>     I can't guarantee that that's a finalest version of my SDL, but if
> you
> >>     have any troubles with it just drop their to the maillist.
> >>
> >>     2009/1/28, Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4 at gmail.com
> >>     <mailto:grimfang4 at gmail.com>>:
> >>      > Ooh, I'd like SDL.dll, too, if you don't mind :)
> >>      > I'm right at the point of trying to build SDL for WinCE.
> >>      >
> >>      > Jonny D
> >>      >
> >>      >
> >>      > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Ilya Kasnacheev
> >>      > <ilya.kasnacheev at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:ilya.kasnacheev at gmail.com>>wrote:
> >>      >
> >>      >> 2009/1/22, Stefan Klug <klug.stefan at gmx.de
> >>     <mailto:klug.stefan at gmx.de>>:
> >>      >> > As noted in my last mail, I'd like to contribute to the WinCe
> >>     Part of
> >>      >> > SDL. I've still got some questions though.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > - How extreme are the changes from 1.2 to TRUNK? Will TRUNK
> >> remain
> >>      >> > mostly stable? If the interface wouldn't change radically I
> >> would
> >>      >> > consider switching to TRUNK as it seems to make more sense
> >>     contributing
> >>      >> > there.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > - I'm currently working on some fixes regarding screen
> >>     orientation under
> >>      >> > wince. Is there already some proposal for a public SDL api to
> >>     get/set
> >>      >> > the screen orientation? I know this doesn't make any sense on
> >>     desktop
> >>      >> > apps, but in the growing mobile world I think it definitely
> >>     would make
> >>      >> > sense...
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > If there are any other things I should respect before posting
> >>     patches
> >>      >> > please tell me ;-)
> >>      >>
> >>      >> I think I've fixed most if not all screen orientation issues in
> my
> >>      >> patches.
> >>      >>
> >>      >> I can mail a SDL.dll to you so you check if it fixes your
> >> problems.
> >>      >>
> >>      >> I have half of my patches already in svn and hope to bring
> another
> >>      >> half really soon.
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