source: multimedia/libdriv/sdl.xml@ 498a011

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY sdl-download-http "http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-&sdl-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY sdl-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY sdl-md5sum        "9d96df8417572a2afb781a7c4c811a85">
  <!ENTITY sdl-size          "3.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY sdl-buildsize     "40 MB">
  <!ENTITY sdl-time          "0.6 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="sdl" xreflabel="SDL-&sdl-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="sdl.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>SDL-&sdl-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="sdl">
    <primary sortas="a-SDL">SDL</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to SDL</title>

    <para>
      The Simple DirectMedia Layer (<application>SDL</application>
      for short) is a cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write
      multimedia software, such as games and emulators.
    </para>

    &lfs10_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&sdl-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&sdl-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &sdl-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &sdl-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &sdl-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &sdl-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">SDL Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/> (if they are not present, the corresponding
      modules are not built)
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="aalib"/>,
      <xref linkend="alsa"/>,
      <xref linkend="glu"/>,
      <xref linkend="nasm"/>,
      <xref linkend="pulseaudio"/>,
      <xref linkend="pth"/>,
      <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
      <ulink url="http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/directfb/">DirectFB</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://ibiblio.org/ggicore/">GGI</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca">libcaca</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://picogui.org/">PicoGUI</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="https://www.svgalib.org/">SVGAlib</ulink>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/sdl"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of SDL</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>SDL</application> by running the
      following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -e '/_XData32/s:register long:register _Xconst long:' \
    -i src/video/x11/SDL_x11sym.h &amp;&amp;

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &amp;&amp;

make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/SDL-&sdl-version;/html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    docs/html/*.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/SDL-&sdl-version;/html</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="testing">
    <title>Testing SDL</title>

    <para>
      If you wish to, test the installation of <application>SDL</application>
      using the included test programs. It is not required to install any of
      the resulting binaries to validate the installation. Issue the following
      commands to build the test programs:
    </para>

<screen remap="test"><userinput>cd test &amp;&amp;
./configure &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      You'll need to manually run all the test programs (they are listed in
      the <filename>README</filename> file in this directory).  Many of them
      will need to be manually killed, and you'll need to turn your speakers
      on with the volume at a suitable level.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -e ...</command>: This command fixes compilation with
      libX11-1.6.0 and later.
    </para>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-alsa-shared</option>: This switch disables
      dynamically loading ALSA shared libraries.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-sdl-dlopen</option>: This switch disables using
      dlopen for shared object loading. Loading image backend libraries like
      libpng dynamically on the fly does not work.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-x11-shared</option>: This switch disables
      dynamically loading X11 shared libraries.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring SDL</title>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/lib-config.xml"/>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>sdl-config</seg>
        <seg>libSDL.so and libSDLmain.a</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/SDL and /usr/share/doc/SDL-&sdl-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="sdl-config">
        <term><command>sdl-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to
            compile and link programs that use
            <filename class='libraryfile'>libSDL</filename>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="sdl sdl-config">
            <primary sortas="b-sdl-config">sdl-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libsdl">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libSDL.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains functions that provide low level access to audio,
            keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and
            2D frame buffer across multiple platforms.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="sdl libsdl">
            <primary sortas="c-libsdl">libSDL.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>