[SDL] SDL_mixer delay

[Rhythmic Fistman]

From: Facundo Dominguez - INCO <fdomin at fing.edu.uy>

> Hello, There:
>     I'm compiling a game on Windows 98 SE, with mingw, using
> SDL-1.2.11 and SDL_mixer-1.2.7.
>
>     On the first try I compiled SDL and SDL_mixer myself with the
> usual procedure "./configure && make && make install"
>     When I ran the game I got a delay (from 0.5 second to 1 second)
> between the action and the moment when the corresponding sound was heard.
>
>     The second try was to use the precompiled sdl.dll for mingw,
> available at www.libsdl.org. That seems to have fixed the problem. But,
> why?

The precompiled lib is built with visual studio. There's a sound bug
in the mingw build and no-one seems to know why.

>     ?What can have made the precompiled build different from mine? ?So
> different as to make the sound work?

Nobody knows. If the code's the same then it's either a bug in mingw
or a misconfiguration problem, however unlike visual studio mingw
doesn't have whole lot of flags to get wrong.

RF.