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Bug 1373

Summary: Build fails on MacOSX, iOS
Product: SDL Reporter: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen>
Component: buildAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.0   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Mac OS X 10.6   

Description Jack Jansen 2012-01-16 01:57:24 UTC 
As of recently, builds are starting to fail for SDL 1.3.0-6217, for MacOSX (both 10.6 and 10.7). This is configure/make builds (not sure whether you're also doing xcode-based builds for MacOSX, but if you are we are not using them).

The problem seems to be that SDL_video.c references X11_bootstrap() which doesn't exist.

I've tried configuring with --disable-video-x11 and even with --without-video, but this doesn't seem to help, probably because when building for the mac SDL uses SDL_config_macosx.h always (ignoring the SDL_config_generated.h which was created by configure.
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2012-01-16 16:25:01 UTC 
I switched all the Mac builds to use SDL_config_macosx.h, so that any SDL library that's built is binary compatible with others.

Is the problem that you don't have the X11 includes and libraries on your system?
Comment 2 Jack Jansen 2012-01-17 03:35:52 UTC 
Indeed, I don't have the X11 libraries installed. This is on purpose, because for binary distribution of the resulting project (Ambulant, www.ambulantplayer.org) we don't want to have dependencies on external packages (or optional Apple packages).

I can see your point with binary compatibility (even though it is at odds with my use case:-). Would it be possible to weak-link against the X11 libraries or something like that, so that even though I install the X11 stuff on my system there is no requirement for end users to do so too?
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2012-01-17 05:05:48 UTC 
We do indeed dynamically load the X11 libraries at runtime so there is no requirement for those libraries to be present on the end user's system.
Comment 4 Jack Jansen 2012-01-17 05:37:22 UTC 
I have now reverted the configure options (for MacOSX) to what they were two weeks ago, and everything seems to build fine again. Probably an operator error.

Sorry for wasting your time,