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digitalmars.D - Allegro 5.1 + LDC + iOS Breath Of Life

reply Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans yahoo.com> writes:
Seemed worth mentioning before I snooze.  My daughter and I just got a
little touch app running on an iPad using D and Allegro 5.1.  Really
nothing major, but it does work.  Just dragging some text around the
screen with my finger and displaying time via std.datetime.

Using latest allegro5 at sourceforge and these:

https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5 5.1 branch
https://github.com/smolt/ldc-iphone-dev

I'll put something up on github in a week or so when the recipe is
cleaned up.  My daughter heads off to college this fall to work towards
a video game design degree, so I've enlisted her to build an interesting
demo as a summer project (my own summer of code).
--
Dan
Apr 04 2015
next sibling parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 08:14:13 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:

 Seemed worth mentioning before I snooze.  My daughter and I 
 just got a
 little touch app running on an iPad using D and Allegro 5.1.  
 Really
 nothing major, but it does work.  Just dragging some text 
 around the
 screen with my finger and displaying time via std.datetime.

 Using latest allegro5 at sourceforge and these:

 https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5 5.1 branch
 https://github.com/smolt/ldc-iphone-dev

 I'll put something up on github in a week or so when the recipe 
 is
 cleaned up.  My daughter heads off to college this fall to work 
 towards
 a video game design degree, so I've enlisted her to build an 
 interesting
 demo as a summer project (my own summer of code).
 --
 Dan


Fantastic news! Will try it this weekend.
Apr 04 2015
parent Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans yahoo.com> writes:
"Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:


 On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 08:14:13 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:

 Seemed worth mentioning before I snooze.  My daughter and I just got
 a
 little touch app running on an iPad using D and Allegro 5.1.  Really
 nothing major, but it does work.  Just dragging some text around the
 screen with my finger and displaying time via std.datetime.

 Using latest allegro5 at sourceforge and these:

 https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5 5.1 branch
 https://github.com/smolt/ldc-iphone-dev

 I'll put something up on github in a week or so when the recipe is
 cleaned up.  My daughter heads off to college this fall to work
 towards
 a video game design degree, so I've enlisted her to build an
 interesting
 demo as a summer project (my own summer of code).
 --
 Dan


 Fantastic news! Will try it this weekend.


Szymon, you will have to tinker some because the allegro iphone xcode
project to build the static lib does not work as is (some relative paths
are wrong), and DAllegro has ALLEGRO_WIP_VERSION = 8, but latest allegro
source on 5.1 branch is WIP 10.  This makes al_init() fail (actually
al_install_system()), because the versions don't match.  I just modifed
DAlllegro ALLEGRO_WIP_VERSION = 10 to see what would happen, and ok so
far.  Might be fine to back off to allegro source with 5.1.8 tag, but I
did not do that.

The other thing is that main entry is different for iOS.  You need to
define a _al_mangled_main() that initializes the D runtime.  I'll put up
some hints on gist until I can make a proper repo:

https://gist.github.com/smolt/7fa1ecfd295a6baaa8b3
Apr 04 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent "bitwise" <bitwise.pvt gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 08:14:13 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:

 Seemed worth mentioning before I snooze.  My daughter and I 
 just got a
 little touch app running on an iPad using D and Allegro 5.1.  
 Really
 nothing major, but it does work.  Just dragging some text 
 around the
 screen with my finger and displaying time via std.datetime.

 Using latest allegro5 at sourceforge and these:

 https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5 5.1 branch
 https://github.com/smolt/ldc-iphone-dev

 I'll put something up on github in a week or so when the recipe 
 is
 cleaned up.  My daughter heads off to college this fall to work 
 towards
 a video game design degree, so I've enlisted her to build an 
 interesting
 demo as a summer project (my own summer of code).
 --
 Dan


Awesome! Been waiting for this.
Apr 04 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans yahoo.com> writes:
There is a lot of low hanging fruit to snatch. I think someone looking
for fun could do something similar with SDL (it support iOS too), then
adapt Dgame.
--
Dan
Apr 04 2015
prev sibling parent "Israel" <tl12000 live.com> writes:
On Saturday, 4 April 2015 at 08:14:13 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:

 My daughter heads off to college this fall to work towards
 a video game design degree, so I've enlisted her to build an 
 interesting
 demo as a summer project (my own summer of code).


Best of luck to her.
Apr 04 2015