[SDL] I can't get to SDL_ttf work

[Eric Lilja]

I developing under cygwin (and I'd like to be able to compile my 
projects under MSVC++ too) and I need to be able to print some simple 
text in my SDL programs. I can't build SDL_ttf myself (see thread 
above). Someone sent me a mingw build of SDL_ttf off-list and my 
programs compile and link using it but exit right away.

I don't like glut but I really miss glutBitmapCharacter() now. What 
should I do? I *need* to be able to print some simple text in my SDL 
programs (cout in the underlying console is not good enough for me) and 
I want to continue using SDL but right now it seems I have no choice but 
to go back to glut. :-(

Any help appreciated!

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