[SDL] Multiple SDL Apps on Windows

[Lucas]

"Mark" <newsgroup at software13.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:loom.20080215T181010-715 at post.gmane.org...
>I have a bit of a strange problem with version 1.12 of SDL on Windows (XP 
>SP2
> Home & Pro) I'd appreciate some advice on.  I have a number of small
> applications which I have written on Linux which, when run open an SDL 
> window
> using SDL_SetVideoMode.  Under Linux I can run two or more of them at once
> without a problem.
>
> However when I build these for Windows using mingw, I can open one of 
> these
> applications, but any subsequent ones I try to open once the first one is
> running all freeze at the SDL_SetVideoMode stage.
>
Freeze or return an error?
I mean: Is it possible to check for this on a windows system?