Retro -- Tiger/Leopard PPC - libsdl2 infrastructure now available

Ken Cunningham ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 07:52:48 UTC 2017


Macports offers libsdl2 2.0.5 so it's right up to date.

The tiger/leopard port is another animal, tho. 2.0.3 might well be where that stays.... have to see.

> On Jul 6, 2017, at 12:43 AM, Dominik Reichardt <domiman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks, I'm offering snapshots for some SDL based stuff and if possible I still offer a universal build with ppc support.
> Having SDL2 is great.
> 
> What's the holdup with SDL2? Upstream is about to release a new version any day now and that will be 2.0.6.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dom
> 
>> Am 06.07.2017 um 09:38 schrieb Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> For those of you with some PPC systems around, the libsdl2 infrastructure (libsdl2, libsdl2_image, libsdl2_net, libsdl2_mixer, libsdl2_ttf) is a collection of supporting ports for a number of other ports, a lot of the them games, emulators, etc.
>> 
>> I finished porting the last of these items back to Tiger & Leopard PPC, and all appear to work correctly. This might open the door up for some other software you were hoping to install (like Pingus, for example, which works nicely).
>> 
>> For the moment, you can install the libsdl2 infrastructure from  this repo <https://github.com/kencu/TigerPorts> if you’re interested.
>> 
>> We’ll see what ports work and what doesn’t in the end, but libsdl is reasonably current at 2.0.3, and the others are the current versions, so we might be successful.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Ken
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