AltME: R3 Building and Porting

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amacleod: 01:49I'm considering a project that i wanted to do in R3 instead of R2 but when ever I looked into R3 it just seemed a little fragmented with the different forks and missing pieces. Its exciting to see that its coming together. Thanks Maxim and to all that are involved.

amacleod: 21:12Probably asked a bunch of times but if were to start a gui r3 project which version would be best to use that would be most compatible with the upcoming unified version and where would I find it?
Gregg: 22:58Atronix's build. http://atronixengineering.com/downloads.html
amacleod: 22:59Thanks Gregg
Gregg: 23:01And Saphirion's docs are at https://github.com/saphirion/documentation. Shixin has integrated their gui work into the Atronix version.
amacleod: 23:04So only the one version and it includes gui?

23:04dev release or production?
Gregg: 23:04Correct.

23:05Dev has some new features in it, like FFI and greatly improvec CALL.

23:05And encap.
amacleod: 23:05great

23:07No mac binary?
Gregg: 23:08Saphirion has an internal one I think, but Atronix does not at this time.

23:09Mainline R3 binaries are available at http://www.rebolsource.net/, and there is an OSX build there.
amacleod: 23:40avast is blocking the dev version from downloading....says dRep infection. Production version downloads fine.

Gregg: 02:33If Shixin doesn't see your note here, I'll make sure he knows.
Robert: 10:46There is no OSX version that supports a GUI yet. What can be done is rendering to images, but no visible GUI.

GregP: 20:45Not directly related to R3, but I started to play with SDL 2.0 and tried some examples, compiled with MinGW on windows 7, and I'm rather badly surprised about stability: I can easily get a crash with a few interactions (click, minimize, focus, ...). Not a good start! I post this here because I thought about possibly use SDL 2.0 for a Mac port for example. Anyone with experience to share on SDL 2.0 ?

Kaj: 02:11It's new, but it's been in the works for many, many years, so I expected it to be better

02:12It uses hardware acceleration, so crashes could be due to an unreliable video driver
GregP: 19:35I'm going to try on another laptop, also I'm going to use MinGW-64 instead. SDL forum is quite active, I'll check there if needed. I think R3 or Red can benefits from SDL so we don't rewrite everything.. I know you did a SDL1.3 lib for Red!