improve iOS and Android Support - #33
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- iOS (src/ios.zig) and Android (src/android.zig) default target configs. - New -Dinclude_path/-Dframework_path/-Dlibrary_path options for SDKs not bundled with Zig (iOS SDK, Android NDK). Unlike --sysroot they only affect the SDL library, not host steps in the build graph. - sdl.zon: split the sources macOS and iOS share into an `apple` group, add a `uikit` group, and add the dummy tray to the android group. - Android: don't list sources that the generic group already compiles (they were built twice), build with pic, compile hidapi/android/hid.cpp for the JNI stubs SDL_android.c registers. - CI: build for iOS on macOS runners. Tested on a physical iPhone and a physical Android device.
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Switches the sdl3 dependency from nat3Github/lib-sdl3-dev-fork to nat3Github/lib-aycb-sdl-dev (mobile), which is allyourcodebase/SDL plus iOS/Android default target configs (allyourcodebase/SDL#33, pending). Switch the pin to allyourcodebase/SDL once that merges. - linkSdl3: forwards include_path/framework_path/library_path (NDK headers for Android). Drops the cross-MSVC GAMEINPUT override (aycb already sets HAVE_GAMEINPUT_H=0) and iOS sanitize_c=off (the iOS example bundles ubsan_rt instead, like Android). - installAndroidSdl3(): installs libSDL3.a + SDL's Java sources, so native and Java SDL come from the same source. Android translate-c gets NDK headers and aro workarounds; pic for Android. - installIosStaticLib(): re-archive with 8-byte-aligned darwin members for Xcode's ld. - android example: no prebuilt .aar; Gradle compiles SDL's Java from zig-out, CMake links libsdl_hello.a + whole-archive libSDL3.a. Gradle 9.7.1 / AGP 9.4.0, minSdk 24. Tested on a physical Android device and iPhone.
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Switches the sdl3 dependency from nat3Github/lib-sdl3-dev-fork to nat3Github/lib-aycb-sdl-dev (mobile), which is allyourcodebase/SDL plus iOS/Android default target configs (allyourcodebase/SDL#33, pending). Switch the pin to allyourcodebase/SDL once that merges. - linkSdl3: forwards include_path/framework_path/library_path (NDK headers for Android). Drops the cross-MSVC GAMEINPUT override (aycb already sets HAVE_GAMEINPUT_H=0) and iOS sanitize_c=off (the iOS example bundles ubsan_rt instead, like Android). - installAndroidSdl3(): installs libSDL3.a + SDL's Java sources, so native and Java SDL come from the same source. Android translate-c gets NDK headers and aro workarounds; pic for Android. - installIosStaticLib(): re-archive with 8-byte-aligned darwin members for Xcode's ld. - android example: no prebuilt .aar; Gradle compiles SDL's Java from zig-out, CMake links libsdl_hello.a + whole-archive libSDL3.a. Gradle 9.7.1 / AGP 9.4.0, minSdk 24. Tested on a physical Android device and iPhone.
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Awesome, thanks for the PR! :) |
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thank you! and somewhat related do you know more about this question i posted on ziggit: https://ziggit.dev/t/canonical-cross-compiling-w-system-dependencies-pkg-config-sysroot-and-search-prefix/17568 ? |
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Switches the sdl3 dependency from nat3Github/lib-sdl3-dev-fork to nat3Github/lib-aycb-sdl-dev (mobile), which is allyourcodebase/SDL plus iOS/Android default target configs (allyourcodebase/SDL#33). - linkSdl3: forwards include_path/framework_path/library_path (NDK headers for Android). Drops the cross-MSVC GAMEINPUT override (aycb already sets HAVE_GAMEINPUT_H=0) and iOS sanitize_c=off (the iOS example bundles ubsan_rt instead, like Android). - installAndroidSdl3(): installs libSDL3.a + SDL's Java sources, so native and Java SDL come from the same source. Android translate-c gets NDK headers and aro workarounds; pic for Android. - installIosStaticLib(): re-archive with 8-byte-aligned darwin members for Xcode's ld. - android example: no prebuilt .aar; Gradle compiles SDL's Java from zig-out, CMake links libsdl_hello.a + whole-archive libSDL3.a. Gradle 9.7.1 / AGP 9.4.0, minSdk 24 (since lower then this we need workarounds for some of zig std). Tested on a physical Android device and iPhone.
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ci runs for iOS on macOS runners.
I tested this patch wired in as a backend in dvui on an old android phone (redmi note 10) and my iphone se 2nd gen.
we already have iOS support and Android support (in dvui) but it would be nice to improve android (compile sdl from source) and have it upstream @aycb for iOS for a canonical source