GiderosMobile 2019.2 Released!

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  February 2019

  It would be great if people here that target iOS could check how Metal backend performs with their app. It is not enabled by default, if you want to try you'll need to tick a checkbox in 'require' plugin and manually add the file 'default.metallib' to your exported Xcode project (the file is in the folder, but not added to the project by default). The idea is to get ready for when Apple decide to completely drop OpenGL support, and I expect this would be the case for iOS 13

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  February 2019

  @jdbc, we also reverted to Qt 5.10 in 2019.2, since 5.12 didn't fix Mojave issue in the end. So macOS 10.11 is still supported!

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• dreiko65 Member

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  Done!Downloaded and donated. Thank you for your time and effort

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• MobAmuse Member

  February 2019

  Yep same here very shortly

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• Apollo14 Member

  February 2019 edited February 2019

  OMG Metal is there?! That's totally cool and awesome!!
  
  

  > Newcomers roadmap: from where to start learning Gideros
  "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
  “The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)

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• john26 Maintainer

  February 2019

  Amazing work supporting Metal, I was afraid this would be a stumbling block given Apple's silly decision to can OpenGL so well done adding a new gfx lib in such a short time. Downloaded and donated! Will test Metal on iOS when I get a chance.

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  February 2019

  Thanks @john26, luckily the work we did supporting both OpenGL and DX11 was very helpful. Metal is quite similar to DX11 in fact, but with its own traps and limitations.

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• john26 Maintainer

  February 2019

  Yes, though it's come on a long way from the code I wrote. All I did was write a compatibility layer converting OpenGL calls emitted by Gideros into DirectX ones for Win Phone/Store. In fact it only dealt with OpenGL 1.1 which was what Gideros did used those days! You turned it into something much more powerful and that flexibility has really proved it's worth. I never thought we'd need a third graphics library...
  
  If you want to remember how it was back in 2014, the code is still here (for nostalgia purposed only!)
  https://sourceforge.net/p/longford/longford/HEAD/tree/dxcompat.cpp

  http://giderosmobile.com
  https://github.com/gideros/gideros
  https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnBlackburn1975
  

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  February 2019

  I've managed to get a simple game to start on the XBoxOne using the UWP export of Gideros. Anything more complicated results in a crash - same place on everything I tried. So early days, but good news all the same.

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• kinrpg Member

  February 2019

  Just giving feedback on trying to copy to ubuntu.
  The same error "/usr/bin/ld: could not be found -lGL"
  "make [1]: *** [libgvfs.so.1.0.0] Error 1"
  "make: *** [libgvfs.qmake.rel] Error 2"
  
  I still can not locate the problem, even the 2018.10 version that I was able to build with the forum and wiki guidelines is no longer copied and shows the same problem.
  
  I formatted the computer and reinstalled the entire system but still nothing.
  
  Good thing the wine is turning wonderfully.
  
  Tnx

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  February 2019

  @hgy29 has fixed a couple of things for the next release to get xboxone working - now shows more complex games, sound working, etc...
  

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  February 2019

  Actually those things I fixed would have crashed on x64 PC as well, I’ll make a 2019.2.1 ASAP...

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  February 2019

  If you manage to get controllers working then I can test as soon as ready...

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• hgy29 Maintainer

  March 2019

  Quick note to tell you that 2019.2.1 is out on github: http://giderosmobile.com/download

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