SFML works on FreeBSD very good

[andreas]

Hi everyone, hello Laurent,

I'd like to bring this thread up again, since I tried to build SFML2 on FreeBSD 9.0 recently.

I still get a bunch of errors from JoystickImpl.cpp saying that a bunch of variables have not been declared
(::open, O_RDONLY, F_SETFL and so on ).

Is there some progress considering the Joystick issues on FreeBSD? I'd also like to offer my help if needed.

Thanks a lot.

[Laurent]

Is there some progress considering the Joystick issues on FreeBSD?

No, since I cannot find any documentation about the joystick API on FreeBSD. So yes, I really need your help

[andreas]

As far as I understand, on FreeBSD (as well as NetBSD and OpenBSD) all USB-input devices are handled within the uhub/uhid module. There is also no special device-file for Joysticks (like /dev/input/jsX on linux). Thus there is also no special JoystickAPI available. The Joystick Interface should rather be adressed by using the USB-HID API  (bsd jstk.c).

I'll take a look into that.

[deaddodo]

If you don't want to use UHIDD (though that is the recommended method on *BSD), you can always use the linux-js port:

http://www.freshports.org/devel/linux-js

Which is a port of the Linux Joystick API.

[Laurent]

If you don't want to use UHIDD (though that is the recommended method on *BSD), you can always use the linux-js port

That would be very convenient (nothing to change in SFML), but I'd like to use only "standard" dependencies. If most users are forced to install linux-js because of SFML, I think it's a bad idea. However if many applications use it, and it's likely to be already installed on the majority of systems, then it could be a good solution.

[andreas]

The linux-js port is marked as broken on FreeBSD 9.x stable.
So it can't be easily installed.

[ccbsd]

SFML works better on FreeBSD now. And I wish it supports more BSD OS.