Clayton Craft
The default path used by directfb for libGL is different than the default path used by x11 in SDL2:
./src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_opengl.c:
path = "libGL.so";
./src/video/x11/SDL_x11opengl.c:
#define DEFAULT_OPENGL "libGL.so.1"
On at least one distro (Alpine Linux), libGL.so is not created (or more accurately the symlink to libGL.so.1 is not created). For consistency, the 'path' variable in SDL_DirectFB_opengl.c should patch the DEFAULT_OPENGL in SDL_x11opengl.c ("libGL.so.1")
Clayton Craft
linux_input module is disabled by default, despite the comments in source code that it is otherwise:
src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c:
devdata->use_linux_input = readBoolEnv(DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT, 0); /* default: on */
src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.h:
#define DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT" /* Default: on */
When using the directfb driver, the linux_input module is suppressed unless the SDL app is started with "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT=1" set in the environment. I recall seeing at one point that the directfb folks recommended using linux_input over the other input drivers, but I am having trouble locating this recommendation. In any case, I believe that this should really be defaulted to 'on' since it's vastly superior to the other dfb input drivers!
This only affects Wayland and DirectFB, as a Unix system generally has X11
support. Other platforms also have different sizes for the C union in
question, but are likely the only target for that platform, etc.
Apps that might run on Wayland or DirectFB will need to be compiled against
new headers from an official 2.0.6 release, or be prepared to force the x11
target, or not use SDL_GetWindowWMInfo().
Fixes Bugzilla #3428.
kaisyu
In case of OpenGLES, the sequences of loading and unloading driver library should be like that:
SDL_Init
...
SDL_GL_LoadLibrary
SDL_EGL_LoadLibrary
...
SDL_Quit
...
SDL_GL_UnloadLibrary
SDL_EGL_UnloadLibrary
...
However, according to my test results, the varible '_this->gl_config.driver_loaded' does not allow 'SDL_GL_UnloadLibrary' to call 'SDL_EGL_UnloadLibrary'.
felix
Building SDL 2.0.5, or even the Mercurial snapshot (r10608) with GCC 6.2.1 and --enable-video-directfb generates a number of compiler diagnostics and fails.
This is currently implemented for X11, Cocoa, Windows, and DirectFB.
This patch is based on work in Unreal Engine 4's fork of SDL,
compliments of Epic Games.
The internal function SDL_EGL_LoadLibrary() did not delete and remove a mostly
uninitialized data structure if loading the library first failed. A later try to
use EGL then skipped initialization and assumed it was previously successful
because the data structure now already existed. This led to at least one crash
in the internal function SDL_EGL_ChooseConfig() because a NULL pointer was
dereferenced to make a call to eglBindAPI().
