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As far as I've seen SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface is not supported yet, is it?

(on windows 7 64 bit)
The following program works and briefly displays a window

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
module Lib
    ( someFunc
    )
where

import qualified SDL
import qualified SDL.Font

someFunc :: IO ()
someFunc = do
    SDL.initialize [SDL.InitVideo]
    window <- SDL.createWindow "App" SDL.defaultWindow
    SDL.showWindow window
    SDL.delay 1000
    SDL.destroyWindow window
    SDL.quit

Adding

SDL.Font.initialize

underneath SDL.initialize causes the program to compile and run but no longer show a window. No error message is shown in the output of the program.

I encountered this using stack with the following declared dependencies:

  build-depends:
      base >=4.7 && <5
    , sdl2
    , sdl2-ttf

I installed the sdl2 libraries using stack's bundled mysys.

I tried to build master (d98b475) by running stack install but I get

path/to/haskell-game/sdl2-ttf/src/SDL/Font.hs:104:1: error:
    Failed to load interface for ‘SDL.Internal.Exception’

As of this writing, they are not released yet, despite being ready for a year on http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf/, but we could already bind to them conditionally, for people using unreleased SDL_ttf from the repo.

The travis script is already there, but I guess somebody from @haskell-games travis user group has to plug it in.

Lets move the discussion from rongcuid#4 to here.

Off the top of my head:

• give the maintainer (@rongcuid) all kinds of permissions, e.g,. to edit the top repo description line, which should probably say something like "This is the official location of the repo"

• it would be ideal if all the old repo forks (@mankyKitty, @osa1, @rongcuid) could change their repository description (the one at the top) to something like "The official repo location is now" and then edit the link to point to

  https://github.com/haskell-game/sdl2-ttf

• also, ideally they'd block their issuse interfaces and wikis (I don't think one can block pull requests)

• party!

@rongcuid: I'm just adding some other packages that I maintain to Stackage and I'd take over sdl2-ttf on Stackage as well, so that the stackage people don't bother you if something stops working, unless you'd like to keep being the responsible person on Stackage (I don't think they support multiple persons responsible for one package). Please let me know if you'd like to keep the package on Stackage and I will stop or revert the change. Thanks again!

I'm thinking short term, as a user: I need the best of both worlds.

I need the breadth of bindings coverage and the good character translation implementation of https://github.com/sbidin/sdl2-ttf (see my remarks and links at rongcuid#4 (comment))

But I also need the various fixes of this very repo (I've already contributed some as pull requests to https://github.com/sbidin/sdl2-ttf) and probably a feature or two as well (didn't look closely enough).

Finally, I need this package on Hackage so that people can build my game directly from Hackage and so that hydra.nixos.org can build it automatically just with cabal.