[SDL] installing SDL 1.2.11 on mingw

[Artem Baguinski]

why don't you use pre built binary? that's what i do on windows.
i must have got it from the sdl website, go to Download > SDL 1.2 >
Development Libraries > Win32

i don't install it, but use some scons magic when building our
SDL/OpenGL programs. (we use scons instead of make)

On 21/12/06, Jake Longworth <lil.niles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've been scouring the internet and this mailing list for days looking
> for a up to date readme on how to install SDL using wingw. i have all the
> latest versions of everything (i double checked that today). i've got got
> msys and mingw up and running and it does compile and execute c code (tested
> it with a simple "hello world".) I did find this readme on the libsdl
> website:
>
> Steps to build SDL natively with the MinGW environment available at:
>  http://www.mingw.org/
>
> These steps assume that you are comfortable with the UNIX environment.
>
>
> Step 1. Download the msys package, version 1.0.8 or newer, and install it.
> Step 2. Download the latest stable version of the MinGW package.
> Step 3. Run the msys shell. Further instructions assume you're in this
> shell.
>
> Step 3. Unpack the MinGW package in the /mingw directory.
> Step 4. Move /mingw/bin/make.exe to /mingw/bin/mingw32-make.exe as directed.
> Step 5. Extract the SDL source into a directory and run:
>  ./configure && make && make install
>
> Step 6. When you're ready to build SDL applications, copy SDL.dll from
>  /usr/local/lib to whereever your SDL application source resides.
>
>
>
> Step 1-3 i got thru these steps just fine
> Step 4: i think with the new version of mingw, you don't need to do this. i
> used the command make and it worked fine without any problems (further more,
> there was no make.exe or mingw32-make.exe in said directory)
> Step.5: on trying ./configure, i get the error that there is no such file or
> directory. i confirmed that there is no configure file. there IS a Makefile,
> but when i try make it says:
>
> Type "make native" to install to /usr
> Type "make cross" to install to
> /usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc/
>
> upon make native i get:
>
> make install prefix=/usr
> make[1]: Entering directory `/temp/SDL-1.2.11'
> make[1]: `install' is up to date.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/temp/SDL-1.2.11'
>
> What is this actually doing? when i type make install i get:
>
> make: `install' is up to date.
>
> and when i try install --help i get a big help readme that seems like its
> referring to configuring the install. I'm TOTALLY lost on this (obviously i
> never got to Step 6.)
>
> i apologize for my horrendous spelling errors, as i am quite dyslexic.
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. (i am doing this to port a program i wrote under linux for a christmass
> present for my brothers, so a reply before christmas would be awesome!)
>
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