Unfortunately the current (august 2011) version of sdl in macports crashes all the time. Fortunately these bugs are fixed in the development branch of SDL.
So we recommend to download SDL 1.3 with mercurial (hg) and compile it by yourself, like this:
First, make sure you have mercurial:
$ sudo port install mercurial
Fetch SDL:
$ hg clone http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL
Compile:
$ cd SDL
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --disable-video-dummy --disable-video-x11 && make -j4
$ sudo make install
When this version will be integrated into macports, only this will be necessary:
$ port install sdl-devel
- Install gtk. It is recommended to use the quartz backend for better integration.
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@@ -27,7 +42,7 @@ If you got the source code from git, run ./autogen.sh first.
Then or otherwise, do:
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-readline=/opt/local --disable-strict --disable-x11 && make
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --with-readline=/opt/local --disable-strict --disable-x11 && make