NEWS

PAKLIB NEWS
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Updated Feb 21 2004

PAKLIB (c) 2004 Dominik Jall ( dominik.jall@gmail.com )


NEW RELEASE: PAKLIB 0.3
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Good news to anyone who is desperately waiting for a function that 
loads a BMP from a PAK into a SDL_Surface.
Until now, one had to use the extractPak() function to get the file 
out of the PAK and save it to disk, then reload it using the SDL_LoadBMP()
function. Today I have written a new function called loadBMP which loads
a BMP from a PAK into a SDL_Surface directly. No longer do you need to
go the lame and slow way of first reading it, writing it to disk, then reread
it into a SDL_Surface and kill it after all. That was awful for sure !

More news:

I have introduced a new switch that enables you to either compile the
PAKlib the original way, so you get a binary executable afterwards.
(This is the original commandline-tool)
Or you can compile the source as part of your program as a library.
If you compile it the "commandline"-way you will not want SDL support since
all you want to do is creating PAKs, reading them etc.
You can tell your compiler to compile as lib into your own code by passing
the 'USE_SDL' macro:

gcc -DUSE_SDL myprog.c pak.c -o myprog `sdl-config --cflags --libs`

(myprog.c is your own code)

This way, pak.c does not create a main() function as it is assumed that
it is provided by your own code.


If you wanted to just create the commandline tool from the same source,
you can simply compile the file the old way:

gcc pak.c -o pak





That's it for now. 
I am working to get the same principle working for WAV-files.


Any comments / critizing to dominik.jall@gmail.com