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

[Kein-Hong Man]

Hi,

Jake Longworth wrote:
> This is to Kein-Hong Man: I'm not exactly sure what problem you are 
> having with SDL and MingGW but i know i had endless hours of problems 
> myself. i came across this link 
> http://blog.pantokrator.net/2006/08/08/setting-up-msysmingw-build-system-for-compiling-sdlopengl-applications/ 
> and if you check other entries it has a howto on SDL_image as well. i 
> hope that helped someone...

I'm well aware that I can build from sources. It is in the wiki 
also, linked to http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/gcc.html. I did 
say that I got all the tests running nicely using configure. No 
problemo. I was just reporting glitches I encountered based on my 
notes. Think of it as a "user's experience" report. :-)

The issue is, libsdl.org does officially distribute a precompiled 
MinGW developer's package. I'm concerned that the developer's 
package is not working as smoothly as it should be doing, at least 
for people using the Makefile and installing with "make native" 
and this might disadvantage beginners to the MinGW/msys platform, 
who often prefer to grab such precompiled packages.

Anyway, once the glitches are cleared up, the package works 
wonderfully. I have also got SDL_image and SDL_mixer running 
nicely too. The connection is slightly better today, and I've just 
managed to grab the SVN 1.2 sources, so I'll take a closer look 
and at the Bugzilla bug list as well.

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