Zitat von Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Robert Palm wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 09:48:31PM +0200, Robert Palm wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I would like to know why, the following libs are named
>> > >
>> > > libSDL2_image.so.1.1
>> > > libSDL2_ttf.so.0.1
>> > >
>> > > and not
>> > >
>> > > libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0
>> > > libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0
>> > >
>> > > Ports:
>> > > devel/sdl2-image
>> > > devel/sdl2_ttf
>> > >
>> > > Is it because of CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX ? How does it work?
>> > >
>> > > Thank you.
>> > >
>> >
>> > As to the why in the sense of the reason for the decision - this
>> > decision was made before my time. My understanding is that upstream
>> > decision to append '-2.0' didn't serve a useful purpose (SDL2 in the
>> > library name really tells you everything and at this point it looks
>> > like the next version will be SDL3).
>> >
>> > Also note the comment in CMakeLists.txt:
>> >
>> > # For historical reasons, the library name redundantly includes the major
>> > # version twice: libSDL2-2.0.so.0.
>> >
>> > As to the technical why - the port uses configure/Makefile and the patch
>> > for Makefile.in removes the use of LT_RELEASE which is responsible for
>> > the '-2.0' in other platforms.
>> >
>> > This is for devel/sdl2, probably similar for the sdl2-* ports. At this
>> > point this is moot as upstream has already acknowledged that this
>> > library naming will be stopped with SDL3.
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> understand - thanks a lot for your detailed explanations!
>>
>> I'll simply use symlinks so that the sdl2 libs can be found...typically,
>> they are refered to by the 2 "standard" designators like
>>
>> ("libSDL2_ttf-2.0.so.0" "libSDL2_ttf")
>> ("libSDL2_image-2.0.so.0" "libSDL2_image")
>>
>> Looking forward for SDL3 then.
>>
>> Best, Robert
>>
>>
>>
>
> Not sure what project this is referring to... as long as this is open
> source, you can probably patch it to dlopen 'libSDL2_ttf.so' without
> the version suffix and same for SDL2_image, as jsg@ pointed out.

Thanks again jsg@ and thfr@.

https://github.com/Failproofshark/cl-sdl2-ttf
https://github.com/lispgames/cl-sdl2-image

I can work around it, but was interested why it's "different"...