From 71b0d9ef4d161818da14f890d4d688206b203153 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin <colin@uninsane.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:11:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allegro5: support building with SDL

stock allegro5 does not support Wayland. the experimental SDL backend is
one way to enable native Wayland support for allegro applications.

see:
- <https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/blob/master/README_sdl.txt>
- <https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L64>
---
 pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/5.nix | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/5.nix
index 237974c38609..119d777459dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/allegro/5.nix
@@ -35,8 +35,13 @@
   texinfo,
   xorgproto,
   zlib,
+  # https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5/blob/master/README_sdl.txt
+  useSDL ? false,
+  sdl2-compat ? null,
 }:
 
+assert useSDL -> sdl2-compat != null;
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "allegro";
   version = "5.2.10.1";
@@ -89,6 +94,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libXxf86misc
     libXxf86vm
     xorgproto
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals useSDL [
+    sdl2-compat
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
@@ -97,7 +105,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -e 's@OpenAL/@AL/@g' -i addons/audio/openal.c
   '';
 
-  cmakeFlags = [ "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON" ];
+  cmakeFlags = [
+    "-DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH=ON"
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals useSDL [
+    "ALLEGRO_SDL=ON"
+  ];
 
   outputs = [
     "out"