Re: state of SDL in LuaCheia

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:16:59 +0200, "Asko Kauppi" <[email protected]>
said:

> - how vanilla is the luacheia codebase currently?   (I know it's in the 
> plans)

Currently luacheia uses the vanilla Lua binaries under all platforms
where
the SDL module works, except under MacOS X (AFAIK). This is because the 
application needs to open an IPC connection (using a Mach port) to the 
WindowServer process on startup, so it can use the the windowing
capabilities 
of MacOS X. Under MacOS X a custom interpreter linked against some system 
libraries is automatically built from vanilla _sources_ (you can take a
look 
at the luacheia/tools/macosx directory for details).

> - are any of you actually using the SDL module on it?  (I've met some 
> bugs, which probably need changing)
> I could send the latest 'sdl_module.cpp' to the person maintaining it 
> in the LuaCheia side.

I have been using the module recently. It is very useful to make quick
prototypes of applications that will be using SDL. I have been adding 
the neccessary checks in "configure.ac" to enable SDL_image support, too.

Bw happy,

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