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Bug 4873

Summary: [Patch] Fix SDL_hidapi.c compilation on Linux
Product: SDL Reporter: Ethan Lee <flibitijibibo>
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Patch to fix Linux SDL_hidapi compilation

Description Ethan Lee 2019-11-23 21:59:45 UTC 
Created attachment 4067 [details]
Patch to fix Linux SDL_hidapi compilation

The latest Hg revision breaks compilation for the OS hid and libusb hid hybrid wrapper. Now that linux/hid.c does the work of dynamically loading udev, we can simply remove it from SDL_hidapi.c. Attached is the patch that does exactly this.
Comment 1 Ethan Lee 2019-12-03 14:59:36 UTC 
The breaking change was backed out by https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/fcb5afd26d62