I have important news!

When you try to look for ways to statically link SDL3 using GCC, all of the search results point to the cmake example here:
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-cmake

Say good bye to the bloated build files because you don't have to use cmake at all!

Instead you can just run:
gcc <Source File> --static `pkg-config --cflags --libs SDL3 --static` -o <Output File>

#programming #sdl3 #devlog #solodev

very slowly and deliberately adding messaging and signals to objects using SDL's event queue. Basically tiles can send custom events with their unique id and a pointer to their animation class that gets caught by an event loop in the tilemap, which adds and removes them from a table. I just have to iterate that table and update all animations at once. Should be fine.

For some reason the tilemap is rendering random tiles though.

Should be fine.

#gamedev #luajit #sdl3

Long shot, but is there anyone here who has used SDL3 and Emscripten or is familiar with building Emscripten from source?

I had to get SDL3_TTF from a PR, and managed to build it with embuilder but so far when I try to build with -sUSE_SDL_TTF=3 it doesn't seem to acknowledge the option and if just complaining that it can't find SDL3/SDL_ttf.h

What am I missing?

(also if you don't know, sharing is caring)

#sdl #sdl3 #emscripten #c #gamedev #programming

So, for my vala game framework "Veggies" I have made a bit more complex sample game.

This is "Shape Blaster" a very old 2013 demo from 'EnvatoTuts+' that was original med in XNA. So I converted it to my framework to test. Its not a full conversion, but good enough.

I think this proves that a rather decent tiny game with extra oomph can be done in this framework 😀.

Check out Veggies if you are curious:
https://codeberg.org/edwood-grant/veggies

#Vala #gamedev #engine #framework #indiedev #indiegame #SDL3 #sdl

Here's a cool ting I managed to do for #gamedev in #vala with #sdl3

Here's a screenshot of a simple SDL3 hello world. I know it doesn't look like much but the cool thing is that I managed to this from Vala, emitting C code, and then compiling with emcc.

Now, there are caveats:

1. Used "profile=libc" so it strips glib.h from the code.
2. Used -DSDL_MAIN_USE_CALLBACKS when compiling, the SDL3 callback structure. This allows me to avoid empcripten binding (you could create one tho)