Unity Developer Is Working On SDL Port To Allow Mir & Wayland Support

[nranger]

I really hope Unity developers embrace SDL2 sooner, because their engine have poor Linux integration. Controllers are handled via whitelist (excluding the Xbox One gamepad, for example) , and I can't remember any Unity game having surround sound.

Indeed, native SDL2 support with input device integration would be more enticing than Wayland display support. Please let's ditch the Unity screen of nope and make games on Linux more of a first class citizen.

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Assault Android Cactus is a Unity game and they port it to SDL2, a couple months ago.

I really hope Unity developers embrace SDL2 sooner, because their engine have poor Linux integration. Controllers are handled via whitelist (excluding the Xbox One gamepad, for example) , and I can't remember any Unity game having surround sound.

[V1tol]

Requiring an X server under OS X

Nope
https://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX_FAQ#H...X11_drivers.3F
I have no problems using wine with macdriver instead of x11 for a long time.

[Trevelyan]

I hope Wine does this, instead of being so tightly bound to X11. Requiring an X server under OS X and in future under Wayland.

Also they could run sound through SDL instead of maintaining their own audio 'drivers' for everything.

Wine is a great project, but does like to (re-)invent a lot of its own infrastructure. Most probably because of its age. (It's a lot older than SDL 2).

[dimko]

that seems very promising.
Not only for Wayland/Mir.

[You-]

EDIT - I read it wrong.Deleted

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Unity Developer Is Working On SDL Port To Allow Mir & Wayland Support

A Unity developer leading the Engineering Tools team at Unity Technologies has been working on porting the game engine to SDL in order to make it portable to Mir and Wayland...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...Unity-SDL-Port