Re: SDL Interface Development

[Lincoln Peters <sampln@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 09:48, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 16:28, ejessen@adelphia.net wrote:
> > [not including the libraries in the build raises] the barrier to entry so 
> high, that 
> > nobody but the most fanatical will attempt to maintain
> > the code.  Which means the program will die out when
> > the fanatics move on.
> 
> Insightful. 
> 
> On Sunday 31 October 2004 08:52, Skeezics Boondoggle wrote:
> > Just to chime in from the Solaris camp - this all sounds great, as long as
> > the dependent libraries are reasonably cross-platform and the build for
> > non-Linux/Windows machines (is that the diplomatic way to say "real Unix"
> > machines? :-) doesn't become untenable.
> 
> Absolutely. 
> 
> Here's a quick 'fact check' listing the library dependancies and weather or 
> not they currently support Linux, Sun, and Windows platforms:
> 
> Libary           Linux         Mac 9        Mac OSX        Sun        Windows
> ------           -----         ------      ---------      -----      ---------
> 
> libsdl             X              X            X            X           X
> paragui            X              X            X            ?           X
> FreeType           X              X            X            X           X
> Zlib               X              ?            ?            ?           X
> libpng             X              X            X            X           X
> SDL_Image          X              X            X            X           X
> Expat              X              X            X            X           X
> OpenGL             X              X            X            X           X

zlib is available on MacOS X, although one might need to download it via
Fink (the MacOS X port of apt-get).

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln@sbcglobal.net>

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