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More old widget libraries for SDL 1.2

January 17, 2023 — BarryK

There are so many old projects. If you keep looking and looking, using different search keywords, more old treasures are discovered. And links to no-longer-existing projects.

I have been posting about GUI toolkits that run on SDL 1.2, such as gui_engine:

https://bkhome.org/news/202301/started-learning-sdl-v12-came-to-a-stop.html

Was googling a bit more yesterday, and came across three more old toolkits that use SDL 1.2:

https://gitlab.com/Pix3l/RetroGui

https://github.com/Laurefinwe/Green-GUI

https://oldgit.suckless.org/swk/files.html

I only compiled RetroGui, and yes it works. It requires "-fcommon" appended to CFLAGS in the Makefile. It has more widgets than gui_engine, so could be a source of ideas if want to add to gui_engine.  

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