[Simh] Installing SDL2 on Mac To Build SIMH

[Rob Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Koning [mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net]
> Sent: 16 February 2018 22:06
> To: rob at jarratt.me.uk
> Cc: Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>; simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Installing SDL2 on Mac To Build SIMH
> 
> 
> 
> > On Feb 16, 2018, at 4:58 PM, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
> wrote:
> > ...
> > I don't think I saw a .dylib either.
> 
> Ok, the thing you downloaded from the SDL website is a .dmg file, which is
a
> Mac OS disk image.  When opened it reveals a "framework" -- a directory
> meant to be moved into /Library/Frameworks where the Mac version of the
> compiler knows how to find it -- the -F switch points to the framework if
I
> remember right, and headers and libraries are then found there.
> 
> There is an "SDL" file which is a shared library.  It appears that shared
libraries
> within frameworks don't have an extension, nor a "lib" prefix, but "file"
reveals
> it as a shared library file.
> 
> You could tweak the makefile to use the framework, or build libSDL Unix
style,
> at which point you may still need some (smaller) Makefile tweaks.
> 
> 	paul

Are you saying that when using a "framework" the standard SIMH makefile
won't find it but that getting the sources and making them would allow the
SIMH makefile to work?

Regards

Rob