On 3/6/2012 12:30 PM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Brandon Falk <bfalk_...@brandonfa.lk> wrote: >> SDL is massive to what I plan on doing, and SDL is dependent on X11. > > Incorrect. SDL has no dependency upon X. Linux users can run SDL > applications directly on a framebuffer device. > > Cheers > > Tom According to wikipedia: "On X Window System <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System> platforms, including Linux <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux> and OpenVMS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS>, SDL uses Xlib <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlib> to communicate with the X11 system for graphics and events."
I'd have to look into that if it does work without xlib/X11. Although SDL is under the GPL still and I'd love to write mine under the BSD license. (If you haven't noticed, I'm going to keep finding excuses to write this as I really am kindof excited to learn/work on it) -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
