Found An Interesting Library... Will It Work?


geckojsc

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I recently discovered a very nice and simple looking library called SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library). It does basic things such as displaying graphics, opening windows, and playing sounds. So, I just wondered whether or not it will work with the Pandora. It is stated that it works with Linux, but the one thing I don't really get is: if a library or open-source project works with Linux, will it almost definitely work with the Pandora after getting modified or ported?

Sorry if I sound a bit noobish, I'm no expert in this area.
 
Gecko.jsc said:
I recently discovered a very nice and simple looking library called SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library). It does basic things such as displaying graphics, opening windows, and playing sounds. So, I just wondered whether or not it will work with the Pandora. It is stated that it works with Linux, but the one thing I don't really get is: if a library or open-source project works with Linux, will it almost definitely work with the Pandora after getting modified or ported?

Sorry if I sound a bit noobish, I'm no expert in this area.

There are a lot of things that would need to be checked
1. Is it portable across arch (i.e its not x86 only)
2. What software dependencies. Pandora may not support them.
 
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Ah, so it would be better to learn how to use SDL instead. When we all get our Pandoras, I'd really like to try out SFML just to see if it works, because I really like the look of it!
 
That reminds me, are we going to have OpenAL? I tried it once and thought it was pretty cool, and it looks like just a software layer over ALSA or something, but since you mentioned it...
 
I guess we have, I have been using it for the last version of my PSP emulator and use it in my games too.
Its really common so I think we will have it. However, I didn't enable audio when testing on the beagleboard yet.
 
JayFoxRox said:
I guess we have, I have been using it for the last version of my PSP emulator and use it in my games too.
Its really common so I think we will have it. However, I didn't enable audio when testing on the beagleboard yet.

It will work, i built it for something on the wiz or pandora
 
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