On 6/16/2014 7:39 PM, Chris Cain wrote:
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 10:24:46 UTC, John Petal wrote:
Does D have a mature SFML or SDL binding?
http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-sfml2
and
http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-sdl2
Are available.
I have personally used the SDL2 bindings on both Windows and Mac and
they work perfectly so far. Just download the library bindings from
libsdl.org and go! For both SFML2 and SDL2, it uses the C interface, so
the tutorials using C are the ones you'll want to pay attention to.
In addition, there's GFM: http://code.dlang.org/packages/gfm
It wraps SDL2 in a bit of a nicer interface (I had trouble using gfm as
a dependency since ~master references gfm:bgfx which doesn't exist in
the dub registry yet ... but gfm:sdl2 works when used as the dependency,
however, it's somewhat new and incomplete ... could use some
contributions, I think)
Note that the DerelictSFML2 binding suffers from a long-standing DMD
bug[1] on Linux, which makes it unusable when compiling as 64-bit. This
is the reason Jeremy DeHaan created DSFML and DSFML-C in the first
place, just to work around this bug. Looks like it may be partially
fixed in the next release, though, so it's getting closer to no longer
being a problem.
The SDL2 binding is mature and stable. It also includes bindings for
SDL_mixer/net/ttf/image. Aside from these, you'll also find bindings for
OpenAL, OpenGL, GLFW3, FreeImage, FreeType and more in the DerelictOrg
github group[2], all of which are available via dub[3].
[1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5570
[2] https://github.com/DerelictOrg
[3] http://code.dlang.org/
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