Ruby/SDL 2.1.0 Ohbayashi Ippei

1 What’s Ruby/SDL

Ruby/SDL is the ruby extension library to use SDL. SDL(Simple DirectMedia Layer) is a cross-platform multimedia library

designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio

device. See www.libsdl.org/ if you want to know SDL in detail.

2 Platform This library supports Linux on X,Win32,FreeBSD and BeOS.

3 Library Needed

Ruby/SDL needs Ruby and SDL and optionally uses SDL_image,SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, SGE, OpenGL and SMPEG.

Indispensable Ruby www.ruby-lang.org/ SDL www.libsdl.org/

Optional SDL_mixer www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/index.html SDL_ttf www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/index.html SDL_image www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/index.html SGE www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8cal1/sge/ SMPEG www.icculus.org/smpeg/ SDLSKK www.kmc.gr.jp/~ohai/sdlskk.en.html

4 INSTALL

install on FreeBSD Use Port.

install on Linux (1)install Ruby

See Ruby's document and install.

(2)install SDL

Extract SDL's source and run './configure' with '--disable-pthreads'
option.
On Linux using pthread with Ruby/SDL makes problem.
You can avoid this problem by other way (Please see rubysdl_doc.en.rd).
And run 'make','make install'.

(3)install SGE

Run 'make' and 'make install'.

(4)install SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, SDL_image, SMPEG and SDLSKK

See documents of these libraries and install them .

(5)install this extension library,Ruby/SDL

Run 'ruby extconf.rb','make' and 'make install'.

5 USE Ruby/SDL

Write "require 'sdl'" in your Ruby script.
See following documents and samples if you want to know the detail.

sample/*.rb
  Ruby/SDL samples.In some script, you have to prepare data such as
  "sample.wav" and "sample.mpg".
rubysdl_doc.en.rd
  Simple reference manual
document of SDL
  This is in SDL archive.
  Please read this when you want to know what does't describe
  these documents.

6 OpenGL

You can use OpenGL with this library.

(1) Setup OpenGL and SDL.
(2) Get OpenGL Interface (http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/opengl/)
(3) Install OpenGL Interface
(4) Run "ruby extconf.rb" with "--enable-opengl".
(5) Run "make" and "make install"
(6) Write "require 'sdl'; require 'opengl'"  in your script.

The interface of OpenGL is same as "OpenGL Interface".
Please see SDL's document,OpenGL document and sample/testgl.rb .

Each OpenGL implementation are a little different in API, so
you may fail to compile Ruby's OpenGL Interface. If you can't
compile, but if you want to complile it, you should modify
sources.

7 LICENSE

This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2.1 or later,
which can be found in the file "LICENSE".
But samples, the Ruby scripts sample/*.rb, are not under LGPL, and
you can use their files freely.

8 Thanks

Thanks to ...
Tamura : some patches and advertising
Akinori MUSHA : Porting on FreeBSD
Danny van Bruggen : some ideas are from his library "RUDL"
akira yamada : patch of SDL::TTF, making packages of Vine and Debian.
Wayne Conrad : some patches
Christian Neukirchen, Kent Dahl : send a patch
Keffin Barnaby : some patches
Rorien Dunn, Dennis Ranke, Keita Urashima : bug reports and useful information
Yusuke TABATA : introduce me into SDL world
SDLdoc Japanese translation project : base of Ruby/SDL's reference manual
Hara Yutaka: Sample TrueTypeFont
Members of #sdl-fan-jp @ FriendChat: bug reports and advices
Cyross: Windows version maintainance

9 OTHER

Some functions, especially SDL::MPEG methods and pallete handling methods,
are not tested.

Please send comments and bug reports to the author.
Author's mail address: [email protected]