fredmorcos

It took me a while to figure out how to get SDL_CreateWindow not to fail on ArchlinuxARM on the Raspberry Pi. So I'm documenting what I did here. It's mostly build flags, for SDL2 and for your program.

First of all, SDL2 on ArchlinuxARM doesn't build the Raspberry Pi and EGL backends. So here's the PKGBUILD for that: https://gist.github.com/fredmorcos/9866f5b318435a90c4f9

It essentially disables all the X and Wayland stuff and enables the EGL backend.

Now, here's a Makefile for building your program: https://gist.github.com/fredmorcos/0728031217533079cc90

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CFLAGS += -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -std=c11 -g `sdl2-config --cflags`
LDFLAGS += `sdl2-config --libs`

.PHONY: clean run

%.o: %.c
	$(CC) -I/opt/vc/include $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@

prog: main.o
	$(CC) -L/opt/vc/lib $(LDFLAGS) $^ -o $@

fredmorcos

# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]>
# Modified by Fred Morcos <[email protected]> for the Raspberry Pi
pkgname=sdl2
pkgver=2.0.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A library for portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard (Version 2)"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h')
url="http://www.libsdl.org"
license=('MIT')
depends=('glibc' 'libxext' 'libxrender' 'libx11' 'libgl' 'libxcursor')