1Porting
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4* Porting To A New Platform
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6  The first thing you have to do when porting to a new platform, is look at
7include/SDL_platform.h and create an entry there for your operating system.
8The standard format is "__PLATFORM__", where PLATFORM is the name of the OS.
9Ideally SDL_platform.h will be able to auto-detect the system it's building
10on based on C preprocessor symbols.
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12There are two basic ways of building SDL at the moment:
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141. The "UNIX" way:  ./configure; make; make install
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16   If you have a GNUish system, then you might try this.  Edit configure.ac,
17   take a look at the large section labelled:
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19	"Set up the configuration based on the host platform!"
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21   Add a section for your platform, and then re-run autogen.sh and build!
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232. Using an IDE:
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25   If you're using an IDE or other non-configure build system, you'll probably
26   want to create a custom SDL_config.h for your platform.  Edit SDL_config.h,
27   add a section for your platform, and create a custom SDL_config_{platform}.h,
28   based on SDL_config_minimal.h and SDL_config.h.in
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30   Add the top level include directory to the header search path, and then add
31   the following sources to the project:
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33	src/*.c
34	src/atomic/*.c
35	src/audio/*.c
36	src/cpuinfo/*.c
37	src/events/*.c
38	src/file/*.c
39	src/haptic/*.c
40	src/joystick/*.c
41	src/power/*.c
42	src/render/*.c
43	src/render/software/*.c
44	src/stdlib/*.c
45	src/thread/*.c
46	src/timer/*.c
47	src/video/*.c
48	src/audio/disk/*.c
49	src/audio/dummy/*.c
50	src/filesystem/dummy/*.c
51	src/video/dummy/*.c
52	src/haptic/dummy/*.c
53	src/joystick/dummy/*.c
54	src/main/dummy/*.c
55	src/thread/generic/*.c
56	src/timer/dummy/*.c
57	src/loadso/dummy/*.c
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60Once you have a working library without any drivers, you can go back to each
61of the major subsystems and start implementing drivers for your platform.
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63If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask on the SDL mailing list:
64	http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php
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66Enjoy!
67	Sam Lantinga				(slouken@libsdl.org)
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