[SDL] newbie, trying to run SDL on win XP with cygwin

[Milan Babuskov]

Dan wrote:
> I have installed cygwin on my win xp pc.  I tried setting up the SDL with the 
> instructions in the faq on the libsdl.org site.  I downloaded the source code 
> and in cygwin typed ./configure to set up sdl.  But the full command i was 
> supposed to type was ./configure && make && make install, and cygwin said make 
> was not a command.  

Perhaps you haven't installed make. Run the cygwin setup and install it.

> I tried compiling my c++ code, using -I./include to 
> include the SDL header files, but still get errors saying: SDL_Init undeclared 
> reference.

-I is only the path for include files. This look like you aren't linking 
with the SDL library. How does exactly your command-line look like?


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