[QUESTION] What is a good simple test program for projectm?

[eleanordoesntcode]

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I'm currently updating the brew formula for projectm to its latest version, 4.1.2. I've gotten the build to work reliably, but I'm lacking one essential element: a small test program to verify the build and installation worked. The previous one that was used no longer work (like at all), and I do not have much knowledge in the project. Could someone propose a small program that would test the library. Thanks by advance!

For reference, here is the previous test program:

[kblaschke]

The above progran uses the old projectM API, which has changed in the 4.x release series. For example, the API is now purely C and doesn't have a settings struct anymore, which was replaced by more convenient getter and setter methods.

We've written a short quick start guide which has all the required information to create a minimal application using projectM. The above example would look very similar, like this example which works fine for me:

projectm_test.c

#include <SDL2/SDL.h>

#include <projectM-4/projectM.h>

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "Video init failed: %s", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }

    SDL_Window* win = SDL_CreateWindow("projectM Test", 0, 0, 320, 240,
        SDL_WINDOW_OPENGL | SDL_WINDOW_ALLOW_HIGHDPI);
    if (win == NULL)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "SDL Window creation failed: %s", SDL_GetError());
        return 2;
    }

    SDL_GLContext glCtx = SDL_GL_CreateContext(win);
    if (glCtx == NULL)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "SDL GL context creation failed: %s", SDL_GetError());
        return 3;
    }

    projectm_handle pm = projectm_create();
    if (pm == NULL)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "projectM instance creation failed: %s", SDL_GetError());
        return 4;
    }

    // Clean up.
    projectm_destroy(pm);
    SDL_Quit();

    return 0;
}

Remember to link the SDL2 and projectM-4 libraries, otherwise you'll be left with undefined references.

The different exit codes would make it easier to check if projectM of some SDL issue caused the application to fail when run.