The current version of SDL is 2.0.3. All new releases of distributions contain
this library already. Current Linux distributions and OpenBSD even backporting
patches from Mupen64Plus 2.1 repo to use SDL 2. Android and other mobile
platform don't have support for legacy SDL 1.2.
People like Anthony J. Bentley and Riley Labrecque already requested
a new release of Mupen64Plus 2.1 with SDL2
Different operation systems (Unix vs. Windows) use different line ending types.
It can easily happen that users from different systems edit files and replace
all line endings of a file with the system specific version. This screws up
diffs and makes merges harder.
Git can normalize line endings for specific files and avoid this problem.
Binary files should be marked to avoid accidentally normalization.
The *.d depends files for make just list the files used when building an
object file. Removing a file listed in such a dependency file causes make to
search for a way to recreate it. This usually cannot work because these files
aren't autogenerated.
The gcc option -MP can be used to generate empty rule for these files. Removing
a file in a dependency list will then execute this empty rule and continue with
the execution of the creation of the object file. This compilation process will
then automatically correct the dependency file.
The S3TC is patented in some countries which makes it hard for distribution.
Mesa is using an external library which is using a compatible algorithm called
S2TC. But also S3TC implementations of this library are available.
Distributions can use this option to be on the safe side regarding the provided
functionality.
n.pepinpe requested in #540 to allow overwriting the automatically searched
CFLAGS and LIBS for used libraries. This should allow distributors to set the
build configuration without patching the makefile. This is important for
systems were pkg-config or sdl-config aren't normally used.
n.pepinpe requested in #540 to allow overwriting the automatically searched
CFLAGS and LIBS for used libraries. This should allow distributors to set the
build configuration without patching the makefile. This is important for
systems were pkg-config or sdl-config aren't normally used.
The GCC introduced Link-time optimization in GCC 4.5 (2010-04-14). This should
be long enough available that interested users have upgraded to a compiler
supporting it.
The MSVC project already enabled WholeProgramOptimization since a long time.
Enabling it by default in GCC seems to be equally valid.
The GCC manual states for different parameters that the options for compilation
must also be used when linking. The options for compilation are stored in
CXXFLAGS and added to LINK.o to fix the behavior.
Option which need this are for example -fPIC/-fPIE or -flto.
Some systems don't have the required boost support and would not be able to
compile glide64 without adding a lot of new dependencies to their build
environment.
The newest boost version (1.5x) completely stripped the -mt suffix from the
libraries. This seems to be the default now and was already supported in
earlier versions (1.4x). Users requiring the suffix can still add them using
BOOST_SUFFIX and BOOST_THREAD_SUFFIX.
Some linker on different platforms don't handle the garbage collection
correctly and create extreme bloated binaries. Therefore, leave it to the user
to enable this feature or not.
The glide64 plugin for mupen64plus is available at the same time as the
glide64mk2 video plugin. Both support different features and use different
configuration options. A clear distinction is necessary to avoid confusion by
the users.
The current ASM conversion hack was improved to fix the major texture problems
in Zelda. It is still not finished and additional work has to be done to make
the code accurate.
The remaining work blocks were left in place.
