What about SDL on OS/2?

Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.programmer.porting
Date	2013-10-18 00:18 -0700
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Subject	What about SDL on OS/2?
From	Mentore <mentore.siesto@libero.it>

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Hello all.

Having recently tried to launch an SDL application on OS/2 (which sadly crashed completely my machine... It didn't happen in months!), I was wondering some things about SDL.

- IIRC, the last SDL on OS/2 is 1.2.10. Am I right? How difficult could it be to try and port the latest SDL?

- I know for a fact that SDL gives BGR images instead of RGB if Panorama VESA is used, while the correct order is used if SNAP is installed. I wonder where one could add some code to check this and fix the byte order of the bitmaps (i.e. a command-line parameter which could tell SDL to change the bitmap byte ordering).

- I won't touch OpenGL, since we have a limited and software-only version. Though... Oh well.

- Did someone else experience crashes in launching an SDL application? I remember porting some simple SDL software and now I can't do it no more, if I don't bring up another (and much older) machine just for this job.

Thanks a lot.
Mentore

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What about SDL on OS/2? Mentore <mentore.siesto@libero.it> - 2013-10-18 00:18 -0700
  Re: What about SDL on OS/2? Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 08:19 -0700
    Re: What about SDL on OS/2? "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2013-10-20 17:35 +0000

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