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Simon McVittie e0d904e90b sdl2-config.in: Deprecate sdl2-config
Library-specific foo-config scripts duplicate very similar logic across
various different projects, and tend to break cross-compiling, multilib
(gcc -m32), Debian/Ubuntu multiarch and so on by only being able to have
one sdl2-config at a time as the first one in the PATH.

The direct replacement is pkg-config(1) or a compatible reimplementation
like pkgconf(1), which relies on each library installing declarative
metadata, like SDL's sdl2.pc (available since at least 2.0.0) and
centralizes the logic into the pkg-config/pkgconf tool.

Most uses of `sdl2-config --foo` can be replaced by something similar
to `${PKG_CONFIG:-pkg-config} --foo sdl2`. Instead of adding a custom
sdl2-config to the PATH or using its --prefix or --exec-prefix options,
users of a custom installation prefix can use any of pkg-config's
non-SDL-specific ways to influence the result, for example setting
PKG_CONFIG_PATH, PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR or PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR environment
variables, or setting the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to point to
a wrapper script.

For Autotools specifically, the replacement for AM_PATH_SDL2 (which
will be officially deprecated in a subsequent commit) is
PKG_CHECK_MODULES.

CMake has its own semi-declarative mechanism for dependency discovery,
"config packages", and the SDL build already installs a config
package. There's a good example of using a config package to discover
SDL in `cmake/test/`.

Meson natively supports pkg-config, and already uses it in preference
to sdl2-config.

Other build systems can run pkg-config instead of sdl2-config,
preferably checking the PKG_CONFIG environment variable first.
https://github.com/ioquake/ioq3 is a good example of a project doing
this correctly.

Helps: #6140, #3516
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
2022-10-31 07:06:03 -07:00
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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Version 2.0

https://www.libsdl.org/

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.

More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory, starting with README.md

Enjoy!

Sam Lantinga (slouken@libsdl.org)