Question regarding porting games to FreeBSD

[bushido95]

Hi friends, I'll just preface by saying that I am fairly new to FreeBSD. Thus far i have really been enjoying it. I'm an indie games developer and I'm wanting to port my projects over to FreeBSD. Are there any well known 2D Game Libraries on FreeBSD? I know SDL2 works on Windows and Linux but how would i use something like SDL2 to port my games over to FreeBSD? Would this work natively? Or would I have to enable the linux compatibility? Thanks in advance

 

[drhowarddrfine]

http://www.freshports.org/search.ph...leted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive

 

[SirDice]

devel/sdl12 and devel/sdl20.

I know SDL2 works on Windows and Linux but how would I use something like SDL2 to port my games over to FreeBSD?

The same way as on Windows or Linux. Why would it be different?

Would this work natively?

Yes.

Or would I have to enable the linux compatibility?

No.

 

[bushido95]

devel/sdl12 and devel/sdl20.


The same way as on Windows or Linux. Why would it be different?

Yes.

No.

I'm new to FreeBSD.... So I didn't know if things were any different. You were a green user too at some point

 

[monwarez]

I would add, as long as you don't use

if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) != 0)
{
    // run the game
}
else
    return ; // quit the game

But instead use

SDL_Init(),SDL_InitSubSystem()

Since haptic support(force feedback) is not yet ported (on devel/sdl20 , for the other I didn't test)

 

[bushido95]

I would add, as long as you don't use

if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) != 0)
{
    // run the game
}
else
    return ; // quit the game

But instead use

SDL_Init(),SDL_InitSubSystem()

Since haptic support(force feedback) is not yet ported (on devel/sdl20 , for the other I didn't test)

Okay Thanks for the suggestion. I'll keep that in mind