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Re: DirectFB

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Post by buserror » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 10:12 AM UTC

To be fair, even a while back it became pretty easy to use fbdev (memory mapped), and Cairo to draw on it.

For event handling eventfd (and now libinput) also became quite a bit easier to use as well so many many years ago I decided to cut out the middleman (direcfb) and do it with these instead.

Re: DirectFB

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Post by squarefoot » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 1:45 PM UTC

thisacctforreal wrote: post #5

See also http://tekui.neoscientists.org

Tekui is a great project, I wish there was something with comparable integration to other small languages such as Nim et al. Years ago I tried it with DirectFB output on an old A10 board (Hackberry IIRC). I was never able to sort out why the screen was shifted left (or right) by several dozen pixels, probably a bug somewhere, but performance on that limited processor was fairly acceptable.

Re: DirectFB

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Post by squarefoot » Mon, Mar 12, 2018, 1:48 PM UTC

thisacctforreal wrote: post #10

walterbell wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that currently maintained?

http://hg.neoscientists.org/tekui/ Last release was early 2015. Last change to the repo was 15 months ago.

Last time I checked it still compiles and runs fine on modern Debian systems. The only caveat is to edit its configuration file to look for (if necessary) the actually installed version of Lua.

edit: minor correction