[SDL] SDL - feedback on inst of SDL-devel-1.2.11-mingw32.tar.gz

[Kein-Hong Man]

Hi all,

This is a report on the installation of the MinGW developer's 
library on MinGW/msys. I realize some of these issues may have 
already been fixed, so I am currently grabbing the 1.2 branch from 
the svn repo, but the net connection from here is still a bit 
spotty, and I don't want to start filing bugs unnecessarily.

I did took a look around the website and the wiki but didn't find 
anything that discusses the installation of the 
SDL-devel-1.2.11-mingw32.tar.gz file. So if this is redundant and 
I haven't been paying attention to posts, I apologize in advance.

Setup: WinXP/Home/SP2. Fresh installation of MinGW 5.0.2 and Msys 
1.0.10, separate dirs. I am using msys's make (3.79.1), running 
bash (2.04.0(1)) on rxvt.

All the following is specific for "make native".

make initially says install is up to date. So I renamed INSTALL to 
something else, then ran "make native" again.

make then dies with:
ln: creating symbolic link `/usrbin/sdl-config' to 
`i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config': No such file or directory

This is due to the following line in Makefile:
make install prefix=/usr

where "/usr" should be "/usr/".

Also, this:
@ln -sf i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config $(prefix)bin/sdl-config

looks like a change of directory is needed. This worked for me:
@ln -sf $(prefix)bin/i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config 
$(prefix)bin/sdl-config

Next is to attempt the tests. After adding SDL.dll to the "test" 
directory, ./configure fails to find SDL. This was due to (1) 
hard-coded prefix in sdl-config, because selected "native". Setting:
prefix=/usr

fixes one problem. (2) Next was that cp copies the SDL header 
files to /usr/include, instead of /usr/include/SDL. So this should 
probably be fixed in the "make dist" part of the Makefile.

Moving the header files enables all the test programs to be 
successfully compiled. Next, some programs failed when 
"SDL_memcmp" wasn't found at runtime. This I fixed by copying 
SDL_config_win32.h to SDL_config.h. After the last fix, all tests 
ran properly, I think. SDL_config.h is new compared to the last 
MinGW dev version of SDL I installed a long time ago, so I'm not 
too sure how I'm supposed to deal with it.

-- 
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia