Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] sdl2 and sdl2-image 0.1

[John Croisant]

On 12/19/15 11:11 PM, Evan Hanson wrote:
> FWIW, the sdl2 egg fails to build with gcc-4.6:
>
>      In file included from sdl2-internals.c:14:0:
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c: In function 
> ‘chickenSDL2_RotateSurface90’:
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c:212:3: error: ‘for’ loop initial 
> declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c:212:3: note: use option -std=c99 or 
> -std=gnu99 to compile your code
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c:213:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial 
> declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c: In function 
> ‘chickenSDL2_FlipSurface’:
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c:267:3: error: ‘for’ loop initial 
> declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
>      lib/sdl2-internals/custom-functions.c:268:5: error: ‘for’ loop initial 
> declarations are only allowed in C99 mode
>
> Building with gcc-5 instead worked fine. The sdl2-image project didn't
> have this problem.
Thanks for this report. I have fixed the issue by changing the code to 
declare the variables before the for loop.

I will make a 0.1.1 bugfix release in a few days, after more people have 
had some time to maybe report some more bugs. :)

For future reference, here is the issue I filed on your behalf: 
https://gitlab.com/chicken-sdl2/chicken-sdl2/issues/29

Thanks again!

- John Croisant