[Wine] Replacing X11 backend driver with SDL

[Roger Cruz]

Great. Thanks for the info. I'll start a preliminary investigation of adding an SDL back engine to Wine.  Being new to Wine, is there documentation that explains how to port to a new platform? If not, I'll just dive into that code and try to understand all the X dependencies. 

Thanks
Roger R. Cruz 



On Sep 22, 2011, at 4:16 PM, "doh123" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

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>> That's good to know that some else already used SDL.  I would love to get my hands on that code but you are saying they didn't open source it?
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>> Using SDL has the benefit of getting wine running on many more platforms since SDL has a large platform support.  
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>> Any pointers to other companies who have used an SDL backend to Wine is extremely appreciated.  I don't want to duplicate efforts if it can be avoided
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> they did not open source their SDL or mac quartz drivers they use, just as much of their stuff is not... but their wine fork was forked off so long ago, it might be vastly different than needed now... and it was Mac OS X only so... it might be better to start from scratch anyways. SDL has a large performance boost in graphics over X11 on Macs.
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