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Setting up a new Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) OS for SDL 2.0 |  |
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dwa
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I don't know much about linux but I worked out enough to set up a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit) on 64 bit hardware and got some sample SDL 2.0 source to compile and run correctly. I then decided to do a reinstall with Ubunti 12.04 (64 bit). I compiled the same sample SDL 2.0 example but now I get "No available video device" error when calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO). I have the latest AMD Radeon driver installed correctly.
I guess there's some library package or something missing but I can't work out what. I've searched and found other people reporting the same error but the solutions don't work for me. Is there anywhere that lists all the packages that are required on a new install for SDL2.0 to work in 64 bit Ubuntu? I note that Ubuntu installs SDL 1.2 packages automatically. Do these clash? Update: I installed these packages and it now works libx11-dev libx11-6-dbg libxfixes-dev libxext-dev Did I need all these of just some? I do not know. Linux packages are a mystery and an enigma, lol. Somehow I ended up with these with the 32bit Ubuntu but not with the 64 bit version. |
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Setting up a new Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) OS for SDL 2.0 | |
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Sik
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Make sure you downloaded the OpenGL *development* libraries (the
package should have "dev" in it, can't remember the exact name). Otherwise SDL won't be able to use OpenGL at all. Could be something else, but remember to check this. SDL 1.2 shouldn't clash anymore with SDL 2.0 (it used to with 1.3). If the filename your SDL library ends up in 2, you should be safe. 2013/1/13, dwa:
SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Setting up a new Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) OS for SDL 2.0 | |
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Scott Percival
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When you build SDL2, make sure that when you run the initial cmake
step that all the video options are marked as ON, including VIDEO_OPENGL and VIDEO_X11_*. A quick way to make sure you've got all the dependencies you need is to run "sudo apt-get build-dep libsdl1.2"; this installs the list of build prerequisites for Ubuntu's SDL 1.2 package, which are more or less unchanged for SDL2. I believe it's libgl1-mesa-dev which contains the OpenGL headers. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Sik the hedgehog wrote:
SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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Setting up a new Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) OS for SDL 2.0 | |
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Schrober
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On Tuesday 15 January 2013 23:14:49 wrote:
No, SDL 1.2 and 2.0 still conflict. The SDL library never used versioned symbols. This makes it unsafe to use them both in the same process context. This can easily happen when someone uses a library which is linked against SDL (libav, libdevil, libdv ligai, libiulib, libmlt, libmupen64plus, ....) and tries to use libSDL2 at the same time (or through another library). And yes, it is still possible to have conflicts even with correctly versioned symbols -- Franz Schrober _______________________________________________ SDL mailing list http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org |
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