This repo kept for sdl1 support and historical purposes.

This repo contains full source for vita SDL1 and SDL2 ports (vita-* branches).

This port supports both doublebuffered (with SDL_Flip) and non-doublebuffered drawing.
It draws directly to framebuffer, without GXM (same as sdl1 works on other platforms)

There are two render backends for Vita:

• sceGxm-based renderer (default)
• scePiglet-based gles2 renderer (must be chosen via hint or renderer index, DolceSDK only)

This is a default renderer.
This one is fast and should be used for sdl-based 2d. It can't bind SDL_Texture to gles2 context.
You can still use raw gles2, though.

This one is incredibly slow in 2d, but you can use it if you'd like to use raw gles2 context, with ability to bind SDL_Texture

Code is in vita-[sdl-release-version] branches. Master branch is intentionally kept empty.

• DolceSDK (Or VitaSDK, but VitaSDK lacks Pigs-In-A-Blanket and thus gles2 support)
• (SDL2 only, optional) Pigs-in-a-blanket (Included in DolceSDK)

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="${DOLCESDK}/share/dolce.toolchain.cmake" ..
make install

make -f Makefile.vita.dolce install

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="${VITASDK}/share/vita.toolchain.cmake" ..
make install

make -f Makefile.vita.vita install

• Drop links to vita2d and sceGxm

• Link your app with pib instead of vita2d
• Link with SceMotion_stub
• Everything else should be the same. If you used vita2d_init_advanced - drop it.

• No opengl support. Only 960x544 at 32bpp screen supported (sdl will do needed conversions anyway, though).

• Only SDL_TEXTUREFORMAT_ABGR8888 is supported.
• Memory pool (used for vertexes) has fixed size of 2 * 1024 * 1024. That shouldn't be an issue, unless your draw count if insanely big.
• You can bind SDL_Texture to gles2 context only when using gles2 renderer.
• SDL_RenderReadPixels supports reading only from display rendertarget (no one sane should read from texture rendertarget anyway, you already have texture, god dammit).

• vita2d doesn't support (and can't support) non-doublebuffered drawing that many sdl1-based software uses. This port does.

• First of all, it's based on a 2.0.12 instead of 2.0.8-something.
• It fully supports everything that an SDL render should (while vita2d version doesn't support blending modes, RenderCopyEx and texture render target)
• It also supports filesystem functions, while vita2d version doesn't
• It is and always will be based on a fixed SDL release, not on some middle-point commit.
• Sensors (gyro / accelerometer) support.

• xerpi and rsn8887 for initial (vita2d) port
• vitasdk/dolcesdk devs
• CBPS discord (Namely Graphene and SonicMastr)
• Northfear for inspiration to do sdl1 port.