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    C++ and SDL with Clickable. A little help please.

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      • lduboeufL Offline
        lduboeuf @Craig
        last edited by

        @Craig any news regarding your port of SDL game ?

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        • Z Offline
          zubozrout
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          Some of you may find these demos usable:
          https://gitlab.com/zub2/SDLDemo
          https://gitlab.com/zub2/MirGLESDemo

          However with the Mir upgrade things should become a bit easier as regular Wayland-compiled SDL stuff should start working there. That is if I understand it correctly.

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          • bhdouglassB Offline
            bhdouglass
            last edited by

            @Craig I just came across this thread and tried out what you mentioned. You'll need to bundle sdl2 with your app to be able to use it (Ubuntu Touch doesn't have it preinstalled). But it looks like @zubozrout 's demo might be a good place to start for that.

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            • lduboeufL Offline
              lduboeuf @zubozrout
              last edited by

              @zubozrout thanks for sharing, it works nicely. I've compiled sdl2 also in a project that only requires audio, i will post the source link here whenever i will publish it

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              • lduboeufL Offline
                lduboeuf
                last edited by

                for reference, it helps understand about clickable and dependencies : https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/appdev/guides/dependencies.html

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                • CraigC Offline
                  Craig @lduboeuf
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                  @lduboeuf
                  Thank you for your response. I ran "clickable create" and entered this option:
                  [7] main-cpp - C++/QML App (built using CMake with a main.cpp)
                  My project name is "mytest". I ran "clickable" and my USB connected tablet running Ubuntu Touch shows the app with "Hello World!". Good!

                  Next, I changed the main.cpp file so that is has the SDL test C++ code that you see in this posting. Also, I tried to make changes to the clickable.json file so the dependencies can be met, like so:

                  {
                  "template": "cmake",
                  "dir": "build/app",
                  "libraries": {
                  "SDL2": {
                  "template": "cmake"
                  }
                  },
                  "dependencies_target": [
                  "libsdl2-dev"
                  ]
                  }

                  I saw clickable downloading the SDL2 files for armhf architecture. Looked good. But I get these error messages:

                  [ 90%] Linking CXX executable mytest
                  CMakeFiles/mytest.dir/main.cpp.o: In function main': main.cpp:(.text+0xc): undefined reference to SDL_Init'
                  main.cpp:(.text+0x2e): undefined reference to `SDL_CreateWindow'
                  etc...

                  What should I adjust to get this test SDL test program working? Thanks!

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                  • lduboeufL Offline
                    lduboeuf @Craig
                    last edited by

                    @Craig have you looked at @zubozrout example for SDL2 ?

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                    • mymikeM Offline
                      mymike @zubozrout
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                      https://gitlab.com/zub2/SDLDemo

                      I managed to build this fine (getting some warnings btw) but the app won't start. I get

                      Command 'echo "sleep 1s && ubuntu-app-launch zub.sdldemo_SDLDemo_0.2" | ssh phablet@ubuntu-phablet' returned non-zero exit status 255.
                      

                      And I can neither grab any log (neither with clickable logs nor with Logviewer) as the log file doesn't exist.

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                      • lduboeufL Offline
                        lduboeuf @mymike
                        last edited by

                        @mymike not sure but i had that also, try replacing in apparmor file 1.3 with 16.04

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                        • mymikeM Offline
                          mymike @lduboeuf
                          last edited by

                          @lduboeuf thanks https://gitlab.com/mymike00/SDLDemo this works for me!

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                          • bhdouglassB Offline
                            bhdouglass @mymike
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                            @mymike what do you think about turning your demo into a template for clickable? It could be really great way to get more people creating/porting SDL apps.

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                            • mymikeM Offline
                              mymike @bhdouglass
                              last edited by

                              @bhdouglass of course! but I don't know how that app work, neither how to make a clickable template. I'll may have a look at it when I'll find some time, but if someone else wants to do it before me, no problem, just do it!

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                              • lduboeufL Offline
                                lduboeuf @mymike
                                last edited by lduboeuf

                                @mymike yes maybe @zubozrout ? who did the hard work with SDL2 template

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                                • lduboeufL Offline
                                  lduboeuf @lduboeuf
                                  last edited by lduboeuf

                                  @lduboeuf just for sharing, published a sample app that using only SDL2 audio https://github.com/lduboeuf/sfxr-qt. I've used template from @zubozrout SDL2 and it works fine.
                                  On my device, sounds are not good quality ( some noises ) , not sure if it is hardware pb or something in-between ( on Desktop it plays fine ).

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                                  • Z Offline
                                    zubozrout
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                                    Just FYI, the credit is not mine but goes to my brother - his nick is zub, mine is not :). Unfortunately I lack the deeper knowledge necessary for such things. All I did was that I upgraded it to work with clickable (already on the original repo) and to run on 16.04 (apparently the apparmor framework update is still not there, but whatever).

                                    Regarding the SDL2 clickable template it doesn't sound as a bad idea though. However I really can't spend the time on it now :(. And the second thing is that SDL is no longer supporting Mir and new stuff may require newer SDL. So the question is whether this is useful. With Unity 8 and Mir upgrades (now on Edge) Wayland-enabled stuff should start working. So it would probably be better to start from scratch and take a look at how to compile SDL apps with Wayland. And I suspect that will be much more documented and a more streamlined experience.

                                    Sadly Mir didn't turned out the way I was hoping it would ... it is a nicely written code on par with the latest standards as that's how Canonical rolls but that's probably not what the general Linux community wants :(.

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                                    • joniusJ Offline
                                      jonius @mymike
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                                      @mymike and others: Creating a clickable template is as simple as providing a git repository with an app that showcases the use case. If someone would like to provide some (it looks like you guys already have something running), simply reply on the feature request: https://gitlab.com/clickable/clickable/issues/122

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                                      • CraigC Offline
                                        Craig
                                        last edited by

                                        I got my C++/SDL2 program working via clickable on Ubuntu Touch. I got frustrated and put the project aside for several months, but I got back at it a few days ago. I used this demo to start with:
                                        https://gitlab.com/zub2/SDLDemo
                                        I'm not using the SDL2pp wrapper, just the regular SDL2 libraries. I have images, fonts, touchscreen and audio mixer working good.

                                        The only problem I need to fix before I can publish it is my app wont seem to run completely full screen. How do I get rid of the Top Bar? The one with the clock and battery icon, etc. It's covering the top of my app window.

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                                        • CiberSheepC Offline
                                          CiberSheep @Craig
                                          last edited by

                                          @Craig we suggest not to run apps in full mode as a general rule.

                                          You can accomplish that adding --fullscreen if you are using qmlscene or for cpp look into this code might be helpful

                                          Another planet, another time, another universe!

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                                          • CraigC Offline
                                            Craig
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you everyone for your help. I finally figured it out and published my app.
                                            https://open-store.io/app/cubechron.craig

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                                            • mymikeM Offline
                                              mymike @Craig
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                                              @Craig Super, do you mind adding the link to sources in the OpenStore?

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