Paid Help Request: Hard times with Rive and macos/web builds.

[fxckdead]

Hey Kunitoki!

I have been using your repo as a base to make Rive work in my own toy project with SDL3+. I have been trying to make it to work for a couple of weeks, but have had no success. wondering if you accept comission work to help me to get to the end line.

[kunitoki]

Hi there! At the moment switching to SDL3 is the target goal, but i've encountered several regressions in event handling when using it (on macOS, haven't checked the other platforms so maybe more incompatibilities might surface). Here is one blocker issue that prevents SDL3 use for plugins UI libsdl-org/SDL#12745

How the integration should work ? Which issues are you encountering ? From what i see you seems you want to target OpenGL on macOS which is not possible (Rive needs 4.2 but macOS provide up to 4.1). Why not using the preferred platform graphics backend ?

[fxckdead]

heey! So I was using OpenGL before putting Rive into the mix, I saw the requirement of needing 4.2, I tried to create the Metal layer but failed (coz of my lack of experience 😄)

My project is smaller than yours, only rendering a "Hello World" window, and I just want to support web/window. However, since I'm coding on a Mac, I need to work on a Mac. But I could take a step back and try to stick to Windows/web. But even the web is failing to build so I'm really stuck, so that's why I was asking if you could provide some, maybe hourly based help 😢

ps: I'm coming back to C/C++ after 15 years? I spent most of my career on web and servers so I'm trying to just run before walking i know.

[kunitoki]

Yeah this is pretty tricky to get running, lot of things can go wrong, and they definately will. My hourly rate is expensive, i tell you, and trying to make Rive to work in an empty project from scratch took me days, being an 25+ years experienced c++ dev, so not sure you want to embark in it.

[fxckdead]

I have spent days too with Rive only until I found your project mentioned by someone on the Rive repo 😄 I'm not in a rush, and this is something I'm doing because I love Rive and the freedom it gives for UIs (and I'm sick of js/react approaches) and to re-learn C++.

Maybe I can just wait until you have SDL3 😄 ! But eventually, if you are open to I could afford a couple hours of help 🙏

[kunitoki]

Why are you bound to SDL3 so much ? SDL2 works fine 😄

[fxckdead]

Why are you bound to SDL3 so much ? SDL2 works fine 😄

To be honest its just trying to learn latest tools right away for "future-proof" knowledge 😸 it's what I have been doing on the web-land but yeah open to suggestions haha

[kunitoki]

Do you have an email ?

[fxckdead]

yeah! it's my non-professional email [email protected] 💯