TILES and SDLTILES builds diff

[LazyCat-rus]

What difference between TILES and SDLTILES defines?

Guess this is can be useful on Windows build.
CURSES=draw text by Windows draw system(i don’t know name).
SDLTILES=draw text by SDL, not use tiles.
TILES=draw text and tiles by SDL.

But SDLTILES behavior can be reached simple by disabling “Use tiles” option in TILES build

Should SDLTILES build flag be purged?

[Coolthulhu]

I’ve only seen CURSES in src/CMakeLists.txt. Curses build is built if TILES isn’t defined, explicitly invoking make CURSES=1 will not do anything.

Pretty sure TILES implies SDLTILES. If this is the case, they could probably be merged.
Running a simple search+replace would probably be enough.

Still, SDLTILES is an internal flag, not listed in the makefile or compiling guides, so it’s relatively low priority.

[BevapDin]

Yeah, merging them, good idea, someone should do it, cough https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/13235 (-;

A SDL-build without tiles isn’t that much different from a SDL-build with tiles. The only hard requirements that tiles had was SDL_image with PNG support, but this was also required for loading bitmaps as font (like Dwarf Fortress tilesets http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository). And SDL_image was listed as requirement anyway. In fact, the Makefiles makes no difference between SDLTILES and TILES, only some C++ code makes a difference.

It would also require more special code to handle more build variations.

In short: I believe there is not much gain of having a SDL-build without tiles.