The needed headers are now included in the repo, which for these libraries is possible thanks to a stable ABI (at least on Windows, the other platforms still need to be checked but the headers only add, never remove or change existing content.)
The big advantage of this setup is that it allows building the project on Windows without any necessary setup - all that needs to be provided is the DLLs from the binary package.
This still requires some fixes for macOS and Linux. On MacOS the proper library names are missing and the ones for Linux are not verified. Both platforms should work, though, if the dynamic loading is disabled.
For some files that had the Doom Source license attached but saw heavy external contributions over the years I added a special note to license all original ZDoom code under BSD.
The idea is to have more control on the game side instead of dealing with these formats in the backend, which was done for FMod because it already had the decoders implemented.
However, with OpenAL this setup makes no sense and only complicates future extensions that can be better handled at a higher level.
Note that the Strife status bar does not draw the health bars yet. I tried to replace the hacky custom texture with a single fill operation but had to find out that all the coordinate mangling for the status bar is being done deep in the video code. This needs to be fixed before this can be made to work.
Currently this is not usable in mods because they cannot initialize custom status bars yet.
- moved testcolor and test fades into SWRenderer files.
These CCMDs work by hacking the default colormap and were never implemented for hardware rendering because they require many checks throughout the code.
Since the true color software renderer also handles them there is no point keeping them on the GL side.
This also optimized how they are stored, because we no longer need to be aware of a base engine which doesn't have them.
- enable precompiled headers for all non-system-specific MIDI devices.
- moved the native Windows and Mac MIDI devices into their respective sections in the project file so that they won't get compiled on the other ones.
* make the critical section local to the respective platform instead of polluting everything with system specific symbols.
* moved system specific class declarations into the source file instead of having them in the global header.
This commit temporarily disables the Windows system device because it cannot be done without polluting the global header and still needs a bit of refactoring.
Continuous integration is a cool thing: I completely forgot about addition of these frameworks because of my build environment which relies on static libraries and custom command line options
Like everything else related to doing standard math with SSE2 vs. x87, there's nothing to be gained here with anything but first generation SSE2 systems which are irrelevant these days.
Taking 'thespir2.wad' from https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10655 the SSE2 version is reproducably ~3% slower than the x87 version on my Core i7, which quite closely mirrors all my previous tests since 2007.
Overall this just looks like an optimization not worth doing.