As I recall, 2.08 built with his patches, but did not actually work, using the cocoa interface. This was about 5 years ago, so you’d have to find the ticket. I kept the last version that DID work in Leopardports.
If you believe that using sdl2 via x11 will allow some port requiring a newish sdl to run usefully on ppc, have a try and see what happens. No need to have a long discussion about whether it will or won’t here…. you’ll know soon enough. My point is that it needs actual testing for FUNCTION, not just building. K > On Jul 20, 2023, at 03:36, Sergio Had <vital....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > P. S. I wonder now if the current SDL2 gonna build with X11 backend and Cocoa > off. Given that upstream concentrated efforts on skillfully breaking Cocoa > beyond repair, everything else might be intact. >> On Jul 20, 2023 07:15 +0800, Ken Cunningham >> <ken.cunningham.web...@gmail.com>, wrote: >> As far as I know, we don't have any ports that use SDL2 via X11/Xquartz. All >> the ports use the Cocoa interface. >> >> The modifications that were made to SDL2 by miniupnp to run on Tiger and >> Leopard were fairly extensive, to an older version of SDL2, but they worked >> to allow a number of ports that required libsdl2 to work on those systems. I >> have those mods tucked away in the archives of the TigerPorts and >> LeopardPorts repos. >> >> Any newer version of libsdl2/SDL2 was not able to be adjusted to be useful >> on those older systems. We did have one newer version that would build, but >> was so broken by the hacks needed to make it build that it was useless in >> practical use. >> >> Which brings me to the next point. >> >> It is quite possible to make hacks/patches to software that will allow it to >> build -- at an extreme, you and #if 0 / #endif out that entire source, and >> it will compile just fine. >> >> But especially for things like SDL2, what is needed is more than that -- you >> have to see if software built against such patched versions will actually >> work, and this sometimes takes some fairly extensive testing to see what the >> warts might be. >> >> >> >> Ken >> >> >> >>> On Jul 19, 2023, at 8:32 AM, Sergey Fedorov <vital....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> libsdl 2.0.22 (our Snow Leopard port) builds on PowerPC with unoffensive >>> fixes, however I had to disable cocoa video and joystick for that. >>> They are likely fixable (though no idea whether and how they gonna work), >>> but at least cocoa video gonna require a massive rewrite – or perhaps >>> falling back to an earlier implementation. (Well, this is not a kind of >>> code I can genuinely rewrite – only adapt patches and maybe improve >>> something a bit.) >>> >>> However, if X11 implementation is a meaningful replacement, it builds fine >>> with no trickery. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> P. S. ICE on hidapi is trivially fixable – I just reverted a commit which >>> has broken that. After that, hidapi builds fine. >>
