Re: [Tuxmath-devel] [Tux4kids-discuss] Tuxmath on Windows

[B L. <che...@gm...>]

SDL2 is preferred over 1.2 for quite a while now. I’m not sure what
proportion of active users are stuck on SDL1.2 for whatever reason, but I
would guess that it’s small.

AFAIK, net play never made it past proof of concept stage but I could be
mistaken.

Static windows build is the way to go. The convention even for software
that binds to DLLs, is to bundle them with the binary.

HTH
-B

On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:34 AM LM <lm...@gm...> wrote:

> I just updated all my development libraries on Windows and I'm
> rebuilding Tuxmath with the latest versions.  Was checking my build
> using SDL and noticed that the fullscreen mode title window and menus
> do not center properly on screen.  I thought this might be a recent
> bug, so I went back to 2.0.2 and tried the executable available for
> Windows on Sourceforge.  Was surprised to note the same screen issue
> there.  I'm wondering if this is worth trying to fix because the issue
> doesn't occur if built with SDL2 in place of SDL.  I'm also attempting
> to get Nalin's espeak additions working successfully on Windows.  So
> far, it's working okay for the menus, but not for the game itself.  It
> was crashing during the game, but I modified the memory handling and
> now it's just slowing to a crawl and freezing during the game.  Will
> test my modifications on Linux if I can get a successful fix for
> Windows.
>
> I'm hoping to put together some sort of static build of Tuxmath for
> Windows at some point.  Was debating between building it statically or
> using shared libraries, but I think it'll be easier for the end user
> if there aren't dozens of dlls required.  Are there any preferences as
> to having it build with SDL 1.2.15 or SDL2?  Tuxmath will work with
> either.  I've backported sdl2_ttf and sdl2_image to work with SDL
> 1.2.15.  Is anyone using the sdl_net features in Tuxmath?  I've never
> personally had a use for them, so I've never tried them or tested with
> them.  Creating a Windows executable to distribute could take a while
> because there are a lot of libraries involved (over 20) and I would
> need to make sure all the source code is available for all those
> libraries as well as my Tuxmath patches and its source.  If anyone has
> any related suggestions or tips, I'd be interested in hearing them.
>
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