[Mono-devel-list] mono SDL linux/win32 SDL.DLL - my brain hurts!

[David Mitchell]

Try this:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cs-sdl/SdlDotNet-3.1.2-1.zip?download

Looks like the latest linux version to me.

David

ted leslie wrote:
> (After my preamble, I am essentially asking .. how does a wrapper to .Net/Mono work .....)
> 
> There must not be to many people writting cross platform apps
> that need sound? Searching for sound (audio, mp3, sound) on mono-project.com via mail list, etc
> returns almost nothing.
> 
> Anyways I came across SDL on the Resources page!!!! wow!!! this will solve my problems!
> 
> I go to   cs-sdl.sourceforge.net
> and check it out, 
> It has SDL.NET for Win32 and Linux (mono is supported, it says)
> So i download the support libraries for SDL.NET which are the traditional SDL libs .. put them on Win32 and updated
> my ones on my Suse box.
> I ran the Examples just fine on Win32
> 
> Now on to Linux and Mono ...............
> 
> First off the latest SDL.NET downloads on sourceforge seem to be for Win32 only (as an aside they have a nice 
> installer that does everything for you on the Win32 side of things)
> 
> So i dig back a COUPLE years and get a gz file (of SDL.NET) that has linux support
> 	(incidently i see screen caps in SDL.NET project page of SDL apps running on linux so even thought
> 		the linux support in the project seems old, it infact looks like it run and works)
> 
> I build the SDL.NET on Linux (using latest stable release Mono), but there is an error in the Makefile,
> the pathing slash is of the windows variety (hmmmmm...?), so i fix that and Makefile the SDL.NET DLL's
> and the examples.
> 
> The Examples compile/build fine but the give a Mono runtime error that they can't
> find System DLL:SDL.dll
> 
> 
>>--An exception was thrown by the type initializer for SdlDotNet.Music ---> System.DllNotFoundException: SDL.dll
> 
> 
> So this is were I hit a dead end because I don't know anything about .Net/C# wrappers to 
> traditional C based libraries on Linux.
> I looked at the gtk-sharp wrapper (cause i know it works), I see a mixer of C and CS files and traditional
> gcc references in makefiles, but basically it looks like a big job to figure out gtk-sharp's process of a wrapper.
> 
> On that note, is there a doucmentation section somewhere on that - i.e. building wrappers?
> 
> To me, I am thinking in the end SDL.NET has to get hold of the routines in the
> SDL ".so" file right? 
> how does that happen? I know how it happens in a traditional C/gcc compile, link, create a .so file, and compile your apps with dynamic support againt the ".so" ....  what bit of magic get Mono to see/do that (with its wrapper)?
> 
> I check around the SDL.NET code and see in the Natives.cs file this:
> 
>                 const string SDL_DLL = "SDL";
>                 const string MIX_DLL = "SDL_mixer";
>                 // General
>                 [DllImport(SDL_DLL, CallingConvention=CallingConvention.Cdecl), SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity]
>                 public static extern int SDL_Init(int flags);
> 
> which I am thinking is pretty key to the process ...
> but why reference   SDL.DLL  ... I don't have that on Linux, thats on Win32.
> 
> Anyone shed light?
> 
> Also, would it be a hard job making the same wrapper to the SDL lib on MAC-OSX to complete a good cross-platfrom
> SDL.NET class for Mono ? 
> 
> -tl
>  
> 
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David Mitchell
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Telogis