(This is the legacy documentation for stable SDL2, the current stable version; SDL3 is the current development version.)

SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE

A variable that lets you provide a file with extra gamecontroller db entries.

Header File

Defined in SDL_hints.h

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE "SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG_FILE"

Remarks

The file should contain lines of gamecontroller config data, see SDL_gamecontroller.h

This hint must be set before calling SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_GAMECONTROLLER) You can update mappings after the system is initialized with SDL_GameControllerMappingForGUID() and SDL_GameControllerAddMapping()

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints