[Qt-interest] Qt and SDL (sound only) on OS X

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/16/2010 07:46 AM, Ross Driedger wrote:
> From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de <mailto:realnc at arcor.de>>
>>
>> Is there a way to make Qt play nice with SDL (or vice versa, or both) on
>> Mac OS X? SDL on OS X needs an SDLMain.m included in the application,
>> which does weird stuff with Cocoa and results in the application bar
>> being unusable.
>>
>> Any pointers?
>
> [trying desperately not to toe the old pointer gag]

:P


>> PS:
>> If you wonder why I need SDL for sound, it's because I couldn't get
>> Phonon to work reliably across Linux, Windows and OS X (especially on OS
>> X where the QuickTime backend is crashing every 10 seconds, but it's a
>> mess on Windows too; it pretty much only works on Linux.)
>
> Have you looked into PortMedia? I am using MIDI portion of that quite
> successfully on Mac, SUSE and Windows. I cannot say how it will fit into
> what you are doing, and whether it works for you, but it does for me.
>
> http://portmedia.sourceforge.net

Thanks for that link, Ross!  I wasn't aware of that project.  Will have 
a good look at it.