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As I recall I did a lot of work on the build systems for 4.3.10 on OSX
and I got it working. The biggest problem was the fblend asm code;
there's nothing done for PPC (and I have no idea about PowerPC
assembly) and the i386 code didn't compile either as gas seems to be
slightly different on Apple compared to Linux/Windows. If you remember
we had something similar back in 2006 (.balign was the problem then)
which led to us using the C code for Allegro 4.2 even on Intel Macs. I
tried fixing the .baligns but there were more errors that I couldn't
understand.
On video bitmaps (for page flipping) I can't see any alternative to
disabling them; they're only emulating the Allegro model which was
based on switching the video card's base address in DOS.
Pete
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jul 20, 2008 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [AD] Possible bug in 4.2 bitmap loading code.
To: Coordination of admins/developers of the game programming library
Allegro <alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 11:21 -0600, Trent Gamblin wrote:
> On Sun, July 20, 2008 11:13 am, Peter Hull said:
> > Is there any plan to add this to 4.2? I ask because I've just
> > noticed
> > bmp.c still showing as 'locally modified' in my SVN directory.
> >
> > Pete
>
> I thought we were going to stop fixing 4.2 and just work on
> 4.3.10plus. Speaking of which, when are we going to do a release of
> that branch? Also, I think another release of 4.9 would be a good
> idea. Any interest in another HackDay to figure this out or can we
> do it here?
>
The problems with 4.3.10plus are all related to OSX though - so probably
need an OSX-devs hackday. About the video bitmaps problem I saw on
allegro.cc, as 4.4.0 will support OpenGL, I think we should just disable
video bitmaps for OSX. Portable code can not rely on them, and except in
Windows, they don't seem to make much sense.
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