Add a cpp-options workaround for windows

[Mikolaj]

This is an implementation of this hack: haskell-game/sdl2#139
It compiles fine on Linux and fixes compilations on Widows (appveyor).

[Mikolaj]

BTW, is it possible to enable github issues for this project? BTW, thank you for you work, really appreciated!

[rongcuid]

Issues enabled.

[Mikolaj]

Thank you very much. I was thinking, would it make sense to approach the haskell-game people, move your fork there as the main sdl2-ttf repo and then you'd take over sdl2-ttf officially and not as an interim maintainer as it is now? From what I can see, @osa1 is perfectly fine with that: https://github.com/osa1/hsSDL2-ttf/issues/5#issuecomment-244425676

[rongcuid]

I am not really doing any game programming recently, but I can take this package (for I might still need it later). Pull requests are fine for me, though.

[Mikolaj]

@polarina, @jmcarthur, others: would it make sense to include sdl2-ttf into haskell-game and invite @rongcuid to the team, or would the package be better off as a standalone package maintained by @rongcuid exclusively?
@mankyKitty, @osa1: your thoughts?

BTW, thank you all for your great work on this stuff.

[osa1]

I'm no longer involved in sdl2-ttf development but since you asked I think it's a good idea to move sdl2-ttf to haskell-game because (1) everyone in the organization can maintain this package (2) it might be good idea to develop this package with sdl2 because these two packages need to be used together (unless there's another sdl2 wrapper that I'm not aware of).

[mankyKitty]

@osa1 sums it up nicely I think, moving it to haskell-game seems like the best plan. What's needed from me to transfer it over?

[Mikolaj]

@ocharles: ^^^? :)

[Mikolaj]

Oh, I've just stumbled upon https://github.com/sbidin/sdl2-ttf. How do these projects compare?

Edit: I guess it's not on hackage, but then I see it has come sensible optimizations that are also probably more robust wrt char enconding on Windows/Wine:
https://github.com/sbidin/sdl2-ttf/blob/master/src/SDL/Font.hs#L223
https://github.com/sbidin/sdl2-ttf/blob/master/src/SDL/Font.hs#L244
I wonder if we could get the best of both worlds (and on haskell-game, preferably).

[ocharles]

I've forked the repository to @haskell-game. Please open an issue on that repository for people who should have access to it.

[Mikolaj]

@ocharles: thank you, but actually you have to enable issues on that fork first. :)

[Mikolaj]

@ocharles: or just add me to the team and I will sort it out.