Wrapping a program within Steam. August 08, 2021, 14:28:30. There was a 'steam wrapper' BlitzSteam - Steam wrapper for Blitz. Steam wrapper, exploring options. I noticed the considerable contributions of Relfos ( here) and thecocce ( Lazarus forum) to the theme. Their approach requires to build a custom DLL (with Visual Studio) against the current Steamworks SDK, if I'm right. So every time the Steamworks SDK gets updated, someone has to update the custom DLL too, I.
In my game port collection there are quite a number of Steam game wrappers which contains the Windows Steam client. I made this video tutorial to show people who encounter Steam login issues, how to fix that. Those Steam client login issues accure most of the time in older wrappers with outdated steam clients pre-installed. In those cases you might run into connection problems error messages from Steam. You may wonder why because you are conencted to the internet. Well, the problem in that case is the pre-installed steam client software. To fix that you need to delete the steam folder in the wrapper and re-install steam into the wrapper. I made a video tutorial about that so you can fix that yourself. It would be nice that if you run into a wrapper with that problem, to inform me about that, so I can make a wrapper update for that Steam wrapper.
I added the video-link to the Wineskin Video Tutorial page as well!
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I noticed the considerable contributions of Relfos (here) and thecocce (Lazarus forum) to the theme. Their approach requires to build a custom DLL (with Visual Studio) against the current Steamworks SDK, if I'm right. So every time the Steamworks SDK gets updated, someone has to update the custom DLL too, I guess. Perhaps you can stay with a certain SDK version over time. But if you don't have yet any SDK you have to download the current version and rely on an appropriate custom DLL.
Anyway the Steamworks API, although being a C++ construct, provides at least some simple C-functions for init and shut-down (steam_api.h). So in Pascal, after loading the steam_api.dll (win32), you can access those functions without any custom DLL:
I'm using this right now in my own game project. The Steam overlay is showing up and you even can access it. Further you can ensure that the Steam client is running. But all the other common Steam features are not available this way.
Steam Wrapper Mac Catalina
Then I stumbled upon the release notes regarding Steamworks SDK v1.32 (February 2015). One note reads as follows:Steam Wrapper Mac
Steam Wrapper For Winebottler
At this point the exploration begins.I want to continue in an upcoming post. But feel free already to comment, to correct me or to give some advice regarding the possibilities of using that 'flat' C-style API.
Thanks!