Design Changes

[RobLoach]

What are your thoughts on...

• Make each module module export libraries and properties, which are aggregated all together in index.js. The result would move all modules to the root so that referencing them would be easy:

  var sdl = require('node-sdl2');
  if (sdl.SDL_Init(sdl.SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) {
    console.log('SDL_Init Error: ' + sdl.SDL_GetError());
    process.exit(1);
  }

  • libraries would be an associative array of the path of the library to load, along with all of the function definitions
  • properties would be an associative array that's merged in after libraries have been loaded

  This would make it really easy to port existing C code over to JavaScript.

• Refactor the library loading to discover the library path (it's just "libSDL2" on Linux)

• Remove the binaries from this package

• Move to some of ES2015?

• Move SDL_Image to its own package: https://github.com/robloach/node-sdl2-image

• Implement additional packages:

  • node-sdl2-mixer
  • node-sdl2-image
  • node-sdl2-gfx
  • node-sdl-ttf

Took this on in #2

[zetsin]

I have re-generated all SDL2-FFI by libclang, however, #define macro are missing. See my new repository node-ffi-gen.

[happilymarrieddad]

Hey guys, I'm getting this error on Linux Mint 18 (Ubuntu 16.04)

return binding.open(pathModule._makeLong(path), stringToFlags(flags), mode);
^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'libSDL2.so'
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:652:18)
at fs.readFileSync (fs.js:553:33)
at new DynamicLibrary (/home/nick/Projects/Nodejs/sdl/test/node_modules/ffi/lib/dynamic_library.js:67:21)
at Object.Library (/home/nick/Projects/Nodejs/sdl/test/node_modules/ffi/lib/library.js:45:12)
at Object. (/home/nick/Projects/Nodejs/sdl/test/node_modules/node-sdl2/dep/SDL_stdinc.js:74:5)
at Module._compile (module.js:573:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:584:10)
at Module.load (module.js:507:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:470:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:462:3)

This is what I ran
sudo apt-get install build-essential xorg-dev libudev-dev libts-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev libopenal-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libaudiofile-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev zlib1g-dev libdirectfb-dev

☁ test sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libSDL2.so
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☁ test sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 /usr/local/lib/libSDL2.so

Thanks!

[happilymarrieddad]

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

That fixed it