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Bug 866

Summary: SDL 1.2.14 x64 issues
Product: SDL Reporter: Alistair John Strachan <alistair>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P1 CC: ophrys.abeille
Version: 1.2.14   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Windows 7   
Attachments: lost dx 64-bit fixes for SDL 1.2.13

Description Alistair John Strachan 2009-10-25 16:41:54 UTC 
Though SDL 1.2.14 builds for x64, and the DIB driver seems to work correctly, the "directx" driver does not appear to initialize correctly.

I haven't had time to put a debugger on it, so it could conceivably be a toolchain bug (using mingw-w64, which is somewhat experimental). SDL 1.2.13 did work correctly when built with the same toolchain + mailing list patch for directx structure size hard-coding.

Will add more detail as I debug this issue.
Comment 1 Opi 2009-12-22 14:35:53 UTC 
This comment is not related to a SDL x64 build, but I wrote a very small program that opens a SDL window a write keyboard events in the console window. The program and SDL is built for x86, running on Windows 7 x64 with a Radeon graphics card and the latest drivers installed.

Everything works fine, but as soon as I put this line at the top of my program:
putenv("SDL_VIDEODRIVER=directx");

the SDL window stops responding. It looks like mouse events are still received, but I cannot move the window and no keyboard events are received.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2011-12-30 01:25:45 UTC 
Bumping priority on a few bugs that I would like examined more closely before 1.2.15 is finalized. This is not a promise that a bug will be fixed. We may close it with WONTFIX or WORKSFORME or something, but I just want to make sure attention is paid.

--ryan.
Comment 3 Sam Lantinga 2011-12-30 03:20:15 UTC 
What was the mailing list patch for directx structure size hard-coding?  I haven't been able to find it.
Comment 4 Alistair John Strachan 2011-12-30 09:44:45 UTC 
Created attachment 749 [details]
lost dx 64-bit fixes for SDL 1.2.13
Comment 5 Alistair John Strachan 2011-12-30 09:45:40 UTC 
Sam, I don't have attribution info for the above patch and haven't looked in the archives. HTH.
Comment 6 Sam Lantinga 2011-12-30 10:42:15 UTC 
Something like this has already been applied to the SDL 1.2 source code in this revision, fixing bug 675:
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/48f1406df2a8

Can you retry with the latest snapshot?
http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.2.zip
Comment 7 Alistair John Strachan 2013-07-09 21:53:36 UTC 
After testing as requested this bug appears to be fixed. Thanks!