Re: [PATCH 1/1] libsdl: Add support for libsdl-native

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 22:50 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Monday 27 January 2014 22:29:09 Andrei Gherzan wrote:
> > On Jan 27, 2014 12:20 PM, "Alexandru Niculita" <alexnick87@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I could not find a way to avoid using TexturePacker.
> > > TexturePacker is used by XMBC to compile all images used
> > >  in a skin into a single file.
> > > 
> > > I took the info from here:
> > http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=TexturePacker
> 
> Without having looked at the source code, they don't give much in the way of 
> detail as to what it actually does. I wonder if it could be replicated with a 
> python script using PIL or similar.
> 
> > Would be great to have this soon so we can have xbmc support.
> 
> Well, if we truly have to have libsdl-native then we have to find a way to 
> mitigate the QEMU problems that building that will trigger, which probably 
> means preventing it from finding that in the sysroot. I'm not sure whether this 
> will be an acceptable solution from an OE-Core perspective but I can't think 
> of any other (other than writing an equivalent to TexturePacker that doesn't 
> use SDL or anything that requires SDL).

We'll probably have to put libsdl-native into a special directory and
teach xmbc's tool to find it in the special path.

Its ugly but we can't break qemu and a world of pain lies in not using
the host system's libsdl...

Cheers,

Richard