The Mac OS X project has a new target called testsdl which builds the automated test. I looked at using Xcode's native unit test support, but the impedance mismatch between the existing automated test structure and Apple's was more than I could handle.
As such, the testsdl application is a full blown proper OS X application, which means it is a self-contained .app bundle. This immediately revealed some problems from the automated test. The largest problem was the assumption about the current working directory and where to find resources. (I suspect Windows may have a similar problem depending on circumstance.) To open resources, the test was looking in directories relative to the SDL source directory, but this will not work well with self-contained .app bundles and Xcode which can place its built applications almost anywhere. And for real-world situations, this is pretty useless anyway.
So I modified SDL_RWFromFile to do special things on OS X. First, it will look for a file in the .app bundle. If not found, it will fallback and just call fopen as it used to do.
I also had to modify the automated test itself because it had a contrieved test which called fopen directly to do read from an existing FILE pointer. In addition, there was a write test. Since a .app bundle is likely going to be read-only, I added a special case for OS X to write to NSTemporaryDirectory.
I expect these changes should work for both Mac and iPhone OS (which includes iPad).
I will update the iPhone Xcode project next.
Finally, FYI, the X11 automated test seems to be failing. Below is my output.
Pending breakpoint 4 - "-[NSException raise]" resolved
Platform : All tests successful (2)
SDL_RWops : All tests successful (5)
Rect : All tests successful (1)
SDL_Surface : All tests successful (6)
Rendering with cocoa driver : All tests successful (3)
Assert Failed!
Blit output not the same.
Test Case 'Renderer x11'
Test Suite 'Rendering with x11 driver'
Last SDL error ''
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetSurfaceBounds
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Sat May 8 00:30:34 iMacAL.local testsdl[71586] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0xa150
Rendering with x11 driver : Failed 1 out of 4 testcases!
Rendering with dummy driver : All tests successful (3)
SDL_Audio : All tests successful (1)
Tests run with SDL 1.3.0 revision 1095906
System is running Mac OS X and is little endian
These are test programs for the SDL library:
checkkeys Watch the key events to check the keyboard
graywin Display a gray gradient and center mouse on spacebar
loopwave Audio test -- loop playing a WAV file
testalpha Display an alpha faded icon -- paint with mouse
testaudioinfo Lists audio device capabilities
testbitmap Test displaying 1-bit bitmaps
testblitspeed Tests performance of SDL's blitters and converters.
testcdrom Sample audio CD control program
testcursor Tests custom mouse cursor
testdyngl Tests dynamically loading OpenGL library
testerror Tests multi-threaded error handling
testfile Tests RWops layer
testgamma Tests video device gamma ramp
testgl A very simple example of using OpenGL with SDL
testgl2 An even simpler example using the SDL 1.3 API
testhread Hacked up test of multi-threading
testiconv Tests international string conversion
testjoystick List joysticks and watch joystick events
testkeys List the available keyboard keys
testloadso Tests the loadable library layer
testlock Hacked up test of multi-threading and locking
testmultiaudio Tests using several audio devices
testoverlay Tests the software/hardware overlay functionality.
testoverlay2 Tests the overlay flickering/scaling during playback.
testpalette Tests palette color cycling
testplatform Tests types, endianness and cpu capabilities
testsem Tests SDL's semaphore implementation
testsprite Example of fast sprite movement on the screen
testsprite2 Improved version of testsprite
testtimer Test the timer facilities
testver Check the version and dynamic loading and endianness
testvidinfo Show the pixel format of the display and perfom the benchmark
testwin Display a BMP image at various depths
testwm Test window manager -- title, icon, events
testwm2 Improved version of testwm
threadwin Test multi-threaded event handling
torturethread Simple test for thread creation/destruction