Guile-SDL - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

GNU Guile-SDL

Guile-SDL is a set of modules that provide bindings for SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) to enable Guile programmers to do all the nice things you can do with SDL. Its core was originally written by Alex Shinn, Vikram Subramanian, and Joel Smith.

Most of the SDL functions have been wrapped with the exception of a few functions that were too C-centric. The SDL Threads and the Audio functions haven't been included because of the problems with Guile code being run from more than one thread. However audio programming can be done with the module ‘(sdl mixer)’ that requires the SDL_mixer library.

Also included is SDL_gfx 2.0.22 (by Andreas Schiffler) and bindings for it.

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Latest release: 0.5.2 (2015-03-08)

bugfixes
Doc bugs, spelling bugs.

dropped procs

As pre-announced in Guile-SDL 0.5.0 (2013-07-19) NEWS, the following procs have been removed:

 (sdl mixer) query-spec
 (sdl ttf) font:glyph-metrics
 (sdl ttf) font:size-text
 (sdl ttf) font:size-utf8
 (sdl sdl) cd-get-nth-track
 (sdl sdl) cd-frames->msf
 (sdl sdl) joystick-get-ball
 (sdl sdl) get-video-info
 (sdl sdl) get-rgb
 (sdl sdl) get-rgba
 (sdl sdl) get-caption
 (sdl sdl) get-mouse-state
 (sdl sdl) get-mouse-relative-state
 (sdl sdl) event-state
 (sdl sdl) joystick-event-state
 (sdl sdl) set-alpha!
 (sdl sdl) set-color-key!
 (sdl sdl) peep-events

configuration enables automagic rebuild rules by default
Previously, modification to a Makefile.am file (for instance) would not trigger rebuild of its associated Makefile.in. Now, it will. You can revert to the previous, somewhat unsafe, practice with option ‘configure --disable-maintainer-mode’.
sed scripts installed
Guile-SDL 0.5 introduced many changes that require client code modification, most of which are relatively simple and can be done mechnically. Towards that end, "make install" also copies to $(pkgdatadir)/0.5 a bunch of sed(1) scripts that you can use on older code. See ugh/README.
(Actually, these scripts were installed as of Guile-SDL 0.5.1, but we forgot to write the NEWS entry.)

bootstrap tools

upgraded:

 Guile-BAUX 20150308.1113.0e5bee4
 GNU Texinfo 5.2
 GNU Automake 1.15
 GNU gnulib 2015-03-03 15:48:40
 GNU Libtool 2.4.6

as before:

 GNU Autoconf 2.69

(unadorned)

Documentation

Documentation for Guile-SDL is available online, as is documentation for most GNU software. You may also find more information about Guile-SDL by running info guile-sdl or by looking at /usr/share/doc/guile-sdl/, /usr/local/doc/guile-sdl/, or similar directories on your system.

Mailing Lists

Guile-SDL has the following mailing lists:

bug-guile-sdl is used to discuss most aspects of Guile-SDL, including development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.

Announcements about Guile-SDL and most other GNU software are made on info-gnu (archive).

Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general security mailing list for advice.

Getting involved

Development of Guile-SDL, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU. If you'd like to get involved, it's a good idea to join the discussion mailing list (see above).

Development: For development sources, issue trackers, and other information, please see the Guile-SDL project page at savannah.gnu.org.
Maintainer: Guile-SDL is currently being maintained by Thien-Thi Nguyen (tip jar). Please use the mailing lists for contact.

Licensing

Guile-SDL is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.