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 Raspberry Pi
 ============

 Requirements:

 Raspbian (other Linux distros may work as well).

 Features
 --------

 * Works without X11
 * Hardware accelerated OpenGL ES 2.x
 * Sound via ALSA
 * Input (mouse/keyboard/joystick) via EVDEV
 * Hotplugging of input devices via UDEV


 Raspbian Build Dependencies
 ---------------------------

 sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev

 You also need the VideoCore binary stuff that ships in /opt/vc for EGL and
 OpenGL ES 2.x, it usually comes pre-installed, but in any case:

 sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi0 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev


 NEON
 ----

 If your Pi has NEON support, make sure you add -mfpu=neon to your CFLAGS so
 that SDL will select some otherwise-disabled highly-optimized code. The
 original Pi units don't have NEON, the Pi2 probably does, and the Pi3
 definitely does.


 Cross compiling from x86 Linux
 ------------------------------

 To cross compile SDL for Raspbian from your desktop machine, you'll need a
 Raspbian system root and the cross compilation tools. We'll assume these tools
 will be placed in /opt/rpi-tools

     sudo git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools /opt/rpi-tools

 You'll also need a Raspbian binary image.
 Get it from: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest
 After unzipping, you'll get file with a name like: "<date>-wheezy-raspbian.img"
 Let's assume the sysroot will be built in /opt/rpi-sysroot.

     export SYSROOT=/opt/rpi-sysroot
     sudo kpartx -a -v <path_to_raspbian_image>.img
     sudo mount -o loop /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt
     sudo cp -r /mnt $SYSROOT
     sudo apt-get install qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static
     sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static $SYSROOT/usr/bin
     sudo mount --bind /dev $SYSROOT/dev
     sudo mount --bind /proc $SYSROOT/proc
     sudo mount --bind /sys $SYSROOT/sys

 Now, before chrooting into the ARM sysroot, you'll need to apply a workaround,
 edit $SYSROOT/etc/ld.so.preload and comment out all lines in it.

     sudo chroot $SYSROOT
     apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev libraspberrypi0 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxss-dev
     exit
     sudo umount $SYSROOT/dev
     sudo umount $SYSROOT/proc
     sudo umount $SYSROOT/sys
     sudo umount /mnt

 There's one more fix required, as the libdl.so symlink uses an absolute path
 which doesn't quite work in our setup.

     sudo rm -rf $SYSROOT/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so
     sudo ln -s ../../../lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2 $SYSROOT/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so

 The final step is compiling SDL itself.

     export CC="/opt/rpi-tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc --sysroot=$SYSROOT -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include -I$SYSROOT/usr/include -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include/interface/vmcs_host/linux"
     cd <SDL SOURCE>
     mkdir -p build;cd build
     LDFLAGS="-L$SYSROOT/opt/vc/lib" ../configure --with-sysroot=$SYSROOT --host=arm-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=$PWD/rpi-sdl2-installed --disable-pulseaudio --disable-esd
     make
     make install

 To be able to deploy this to /usr/local in the Raspbian system you need to fix up a few paths:

     perl -w -pi -e "s#$PWD/rpi-sdl2-installed#/usr/local#g;" ./rpi-sdl2-installed/lib/libSDL2.la ./rpi-sdl2-installed/lib/pkgconfig/sdl2.pc ./rpi-sdl2-installed/bin/sdl2-config

 Apps don't work or poor video/audio performance
 -----------------------------------------------

 If you get sound problems, buffer underruns, etc, run "sudo rpi-update" to
 update the RPi's firmware. Note that doing so will fix these problems, but it
 will also render the CMA - Dynamic Memory Split functionality useless.

 Also, by default the Raspbian distro configures the GPU RAM at 64MB, this is too
 low in general, specially if a 1080p TV is hooked up.

 See here how to configure this setting: http://elinux.org/RPiconfig

 Using a fixed gpu_mem=128 is the best option (specially if you updated the
 firmware, using CMA probably won't work, at least it's the current case).

 No input
 --------

 Make sure you belong to the "input" group.

     sudo usermod -aG input `whoami`

 No HDMI Audio
 -------------

 If you notice that ALSA works but there's no audio over HDMI, try adding:

     hdmi_drive=2

 to your config.txt file and reboot.

 Reference: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5062

 Text Input API support
 ----------------------

 The Text Input API is supported, with translation of scan codes done via the
 kernel symbol tables. For this to work, SDL needs access to a valid console.
 If you notice there's no SDL_TEXTINPUT message being emitted, double check that
 your app has read access to one of the following:

 * /proc/self/fd/0
 * /dev/tty
 * /dev/tty[0...6]
 * /dev/vc/0
 * /dev/console

 This is usually not a problem if you run from the physical terminal (as opposed
 to running from a pseudo terminal, such as via SSH). If running from a PTS, a
 quick workaround is to run your app as root or add yourself to the tty group,
 then re-login to the system.

     sudo usermod -aG tty `whoami`

 The keyboard layout used by SDL is the same as the one the kernel uses.
 To configure the layout on Raspbian:

     sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

 To configure the locale, which controls which keys are interpreted as letters,
 this determining the CAPS LOCK behavior:

     sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales


 OpenGL problems
 ---------------

 If you have desktop OpenGL headers installed at build time in your RPi or cross
 compilation environment, support for it will be built in. However, the chipset
 does not actually have support for it, which causes issues in certain SDL apps
 since the presence of OpenGL support supersedes the ES/ES2 variants.
 The workaround is to disable OpenGL at configuration time:

     ./configure --disable-video-opengl

 Or if the application uses the Render functions, you can use the SDL_RENDER_DRIVER
 environment variable:

     export SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=opengles2

 Notes
 -----

 * When launching apps remotely (via SSH), SDL can prevent local keystrokes from
   leaking into the console only if it has root privileges. Launching apps locally
   does not suffer from this issue.
	Raspberry Pi
	============

	Requirements:

	Raspbian (other Linux distros may work as well).

	Features
	--------

	* Works without X11
	* Hardware accelerated OpenGL ES 2.x
	* Sound via ALSA
	* Input (mouse/keyboard/joystick) via EVDEV
	* Hotplugging of input devices via UDEV


	Raspbian Build Dependencies
	---------------------------

	sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev

	You also need the VideoCore binary stuff that ships in /opt/vc for EGL and
	OpenGL ES 2.x, it usually comes pre-installed, but in any case:

	sudo apt-get install libraspberrypi0 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev


	NEON
	----

	If your Pi has NEON support, make sure you add -mfpu=neon to your CFLAGS so
	that SDL will select some otherwise-disabled highly-optimized code. The
	original Pi units don't have NEON, the Pi2 probably does, and the Pi3
	definitely does.


	Cross compiling from x86 Linux
	------------------------------

	To cross compile SDL for Raspbian from your desktop machine, you'll need a
	Raspbian system root and the cross compilation tools. We'll assume these tools
	will be placed in /opt/rpi-tools

	sudo git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools /opt/rpi-tools

	You'll also need a Raspbian binary image.
	Get it from: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest
	After unzipping, you'll get file with a name like: "<date>-wheezy-raspbian.img"
	Let's assume the sysroot will be built in /opt/rpi-sysroot.

	export SYSROOT=/opt/rpi-sysroot
	sudo kpartx -a -v <path_to_raspbian_image>.img
	sudo mount -o loop /dev/mapper/loop0p2 /mnt
	sudo cp -r /mnt $SYSROOT
	sudo apt-get install qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static
	sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static $SYSROOT/usr/bin
	sudo mount --bind /dev $SYSROOT/dev
	sudo mount --bind /proc $SYSROOT/proc
	sudo mount --bind /sys $SYSROOT/sys

	Now, before chrooting into the ARM sysroot, you'll need to apply a workaround,
	edit $SYSROOT/etc/ld.so.preload and comment out all lines in it.

	sudo chroot $SYSROOT
	apt-get install libudev-dev libasound2-dev libdbus-1-dev libraspberrypi0 libraspberrypi-bin libraspberrypi-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxrandr-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxss-dev
	exit
	sudo umount $SYSROOT/dev
	sudo umount $SYSROOT/proc
	sudo umount $SYSROOT/sys
	sudo umount /mnt

	There's one more fix required, as the libdl.so symlink uses an absolute path
	which doesn't quite work in our setup.

	sudo rm -rf $SYSROOT/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so
	sudo ln -s ../../../lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so.2 $SYSROOT/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libdl.so

	The final step is compiling SDL itself.

	export CC="/opt/rpi-tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc --sysroot=$SYSROOT -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include -I$SYSROOT/usr/include -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include/interface/vcos/pthreads -I$SYSROOT/opt/vc/include/interface/vmcs_host/linux"
	cd <SDL SOURCE>
	mkdir -p build;cd build
	LDFLAGS="-L$SYSROOT/opt/vc/lib" ../configure --with-sysroot=$SYSROOT --host=arm-raspberry-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=$PWD/rpi-sdl2-installed --disable-pulseaudio --disable-esd
	make
	make install

	To be able to deploy this to /usr/local in the Raspbian system you need to fix up a few paths:

	perl -w -pi -e "s#$PWD/rpi-sdl2-installed#/usr/local#g;" ./rpi-sdl2-installed/lib/libSDL2.la ./rpi-sdl2-installed/lib/pkgconfig/sdl2.pc ./rpi-sdl2-installed/bin/sdl2-config

	Apps don't work or poor video/audio performance
	-----------------------------------------------

	If you get sound problems, buffer underruns, etc, run "sudo rpi-update" to
	update the RPi's firmware. Note that doing so will fix these problems, but it
	will also render the CMA - Dynamic Memory Split functionality useless.

	Also, by default the Raspbian distro configures the GPU RAM at 64MB, this is too
	low in general, specially if a 1080p TV is hooked up.

	See here how to configure this setting: http://elinux.org/RPiconfig

	Using a fixed gpu_mem=128 is the best option (specially if you updated the
	firmware, using CMA probably won't work, at least it's the current case).

	No input
	--------

	Make sure you belong to the "input" group.

	sudo usermod -aG input `whoami`

	No HDMI Audio
	-------------

	If you notice that ALSA works but there's no audio over HDMI, try adding:

	hdmi_drive=2

	to your config.txt file and reboot.

	Reference: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5062

	Text Input API support
	----------------------

	The Text Input API is supported, with translation of scan codes done via the
	kernel symbol tables. For this to work, SDL needs access to a valid console.
	If you notice there's no SDL_TEXTINPUT message being emitted, double check that
	your app has read access to one of the following:

	* /proc/self/fd/0
	* /dev/tty
	* /dev/tty[0...6]
	* /dev/vc/0
	* /dev/console

	This is usually not a problem if you run from the physical terminal (as opposed
	to running from a pseudo terminal, such as via SSH). If running from a PTS, a
	quick workaround is to run your app as root or add yourself to the tty group,
	then re-login to the system.

	sudo usermod -aG tty `whoami`

	The keyboard layout used by SDL is the same as the one the kernel uses.
	To configure the layout on Raspbian:

	sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

	To configure the locale, which controls which keys are interpreted as letters,
	this determining the CAPS LOCK behavior:

	sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales


	OpenGL problems
	---------------

	If you have desktop OpenGL headers installed at build time in your RPi or cross
	compilation environment, support for it will be built in. However, the chipset
	does not actually have support for it, which causes issues in certain SDL apps
	since the presence of OpenGL support supersedes the ES/ES2 variants.
	The workaround is to disable OpenGL at configuration time:

	./configure --disable-video-opengl

	Or if the application uses the Render functions, you can use the SDL_RENDER_DRIVER
	environment variable:

	export SDL_RENDER_DRIVER=opengles2

	Notes
	-----

	* When launching apps remotely (via SSH), SDL can prevent local keystrokes from
	leaking into the console only if it has root privileges. Launching apps locally
	does not suffer from this issue.