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Experience with sdl2-compat? (self.archlinux)

submitted 1 day ago by donio to c/[email protected]

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When the newly released sdl3 is installed it offers to replace sdl2 with sdl2-compat which is a compatibility wrapper around sdl3. Any experience with this wrapper? Are you a happy user? Have you run into any breakage?

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[–] JTskulk 2 points 15 hours ago

It hasn't broken gzdoom, the only thing I use sdl2 for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I found that sound was completely broken in MAME, in the extremely loud kind of way. Not a fun experience. I'd like to look into it more so that I can file a bug report, but I don't yet know where the blame lies.

Every other program that I use seems to work fine so far.

[–] forbiddenlake 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Broke XIVLauncher, couldn't type in it. Fixed in SDL already so Arch should get .51 soon.

[–] donio 1 points 22 hours ago

Thanks, I see that sdl2-compat-2.30.51-1 has landed in Arch since.

[–] that_leaflet 2 points 1 day ago

Fedora Discussion Post and Fedora Mailing List Thread noting bugs with sdl2-compat. Some cases of things breaking, being fixed with patches.