[enhancement idea] SDL2 support

[bananapizzuh]

I believe it would be beneficial to have sdl2 support, mainly to enable the porting of games to more platforms. There is a library called sdl2_compat by the sdl team that is a compatibility layer between sdl2 and sdl3 by mapping sdl2 functions to sdl3. This would allow the current sdl3 renderer and other features in sdl3 to be used if enabled while having the framework be more portable.

[YalekW5435]

We could technically integrate that but several problems arise. SDL 2 and SDL3 are quite different in the way things are structured and written, and there's no need to put separate versions inside a library such as this. We're trying to stay to the latest standards as (I specifically requested lol). Your solution might work for sdl2_compat, however. But, our goal here is to remain as updated as possible to later standards or code. However I wouldn't mind adding that compatibility layer especially for older type emulation. But then we have even more problems. On Windows they are no longer supporting Vista XP or 7 anymore. Everything is now 10 and 11. On Apple I don't know how far the compatibility goes down to which versions of the macos. What we do want to do though and this is going to be taking a little bit, is do indeed add support for Android iOS and PlayStation and all sorts of other latter day "gaming consoles". (I hate that term honestly lol, it should be called a "portable gaming computer", because in the context of c++, console means "console application", terminal based only). But yeah we do want to definitely add some compatibility layers here in the future and add more support for mobile and consoles.

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[YalekW5435]

Also this specific version is already as portable as it can be for most PC versions. It does work on Linux, and mac too. And it should also work on many many distributions of Linux. We'll definitely keep these in mind for you though.

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On Fri, Oct 3, 2025, 01:01 Yalek W ***@***.***> wrote: We could technically integrate that but several problems arise. SDL 2 and SDL3 are quite different in the way things are structured and written, and there's no need to put separate versions inside a library such as this. We're trying to stay to the latest standards as (I specifically requested lol). Your solution might work for sdl2_compat, however. But, our goal here is to remain as updated as possible to later standards or code. However I wouldn't mind adding that compatibility layer especially for older type emulation. But then we have even more problems. On Windows they are no longer supporting Vista XP or 7 anymore. Everything is now 10 and 11. On Apple I don't know how far the compatibility goes down to which versions of the macos. What we do want to do though and this is going to be taking a little bit, is do indeed add support for Android iOS and PlayStation and all sorts of other latter day "gaming consoles". (I hate that term honestly lol, it should be called a "portable gaming computer", because in the context of c++, console means "console application", terminal based only). But yeah we do want to definitely add some compatibility layers here in the future and add more support for mobile and consoles. On Thu, Oct 2, 2025, 09:39 Liz ***@***.***> wrote: > *bananapizzuh* created an issue (teampopwork/PopLib#12) > <#12> > > I believe it would be beneficial to have sdl2 support, mainly to enable > the porting of games to more platforms. There is a library called > sdl2_compat by the sdl team that is a compatibility layer between sdl2 > and sdl3 by mapping sdl2 functions to sdl3. This would allow the current > sdl3 renderer and other features in sdl3 to be used if enabled while having > the framework be more portable. > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#12>, or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFR7B7JB7KSP3K3KFW7KDGT3VUTJ7AVCNFSM6AAAAACIDPCLOKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZTGQ3TONJXGUYDSMQ> > . > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: ***@***.***> >

[ThePixelMoon]

What will that do anyway? It's not like we NEED it and stuff
Edit: oh yeah, older platforms.