orbclient

The Orbital Client Library. Compatible with Redox and SDL2 (on Linux and Macos).

Dependencies

If you are NOT using the "bundled" feature (which is off by default) then you need SDL (sdl2) installed on your system.

macos

On macos you can install the SDL2 library using brew install sdl2

Features

The "serde"feature can be used to include code for Color deserialization using the serde crate (which is an optional dependency). This is not enabled by default. To enable, either build using the --features "serde" command line option, or use features = ["serde"] in your crate, where it declares a dependency on orbclient.

The std feature is used to allow building orbclient with our without rust std. This is to enable use by some UEFI apps (e.g. System76 firmware setup, System76 firmware updater) that don't have std.

The "unifont feature (on by default is used to include the "unifont" font).

The bundled feature removes the need to have SDL2 installed locally. The SDL library is compiled from source as part of the crate build and bundled with it.

Troubleshooting

• Make sure that you work with the current nightly version of Rust
  • To make sure of that, please use rustup
  • Don't forget to override your work directory with rustup override set nightly
  • Don't forget to update the nightly version of Rust with rustup update nightly
• SDL2 should be automatically with orbclient if you have trouble try to install it libsdl2-dev manually
  • For example, with Ubuntu, please to type sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev in your console
• On fedora please type sudo dnf install SDL2-devel SDL2-static in your console before building.
  • if during building, this message comes up could not find native static library `SDL2main`, perhaps an -L flag is missing?. Providing the path to the static library might help. You can provide this path via RUSTFLAGS='-L <path-to-folder-with-libSDL2.a>' cargo b .... At the moment of writing, the SDL2 library is stored under /usr/lib64 on fedora. In this case you would type RUSTFLAGS='-L /usr/lib64' cargo r --example simple to start the simple example.
• Other problem? Do not hesitate to create a new issue!