Installation of SDL

SDL Development
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Could someone please explain to me how to install SDL?

The steps I’ve taken thus far are:

  1. tar… something somthing something
  2. ./configure
  3. make
  4. make install(I think)

Is that all that is required?

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Could someone please explain to me how to install SDL?

The steps I’ve taken thus far are:

  1. tar… something somthing something
  2. ./configure
  3. make
  4. make install(I think)

Is that all that is required?

Yep!
You might need to add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf and then run ldconfig
as root.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

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“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature”
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Hi all,

Could someone please explain to me how to install SDL?

The steps I’ve taken thus far are:

  1. tar… something somthing something
  2. ./configure

I hesitate to jump in here with my problem, 'cos I’ve hardly done anything
to try to figure it out myself yet, but… :slight_smile:

I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to go
into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

(sat there for several minutes before I killed it, top showed that it was
running sed and taking all available CPU, meanwhile a several meg in size
"Makefile.in" was being created in src/audio/ )

I tried also configuring with --disable-audio but the same still happened.

This was with both SDL 1.0.8 and SDL 1.1.1, btw…

If anyone has any ideas, off the top of their head, that’d be cool, but
don’t worry about it too much… I’ll have a proper attempt at figuring it
out on the weekend and come back to the list if I still fail… :slight_smile:

Cheers!
David…

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I hesitate to jump in here with my problem, 'cos I’ve hardly done anything
to try to figure it out myself yet, but… :slight_smile:

Don’t worry about it.

I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to go
into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

… I don’t normally swear on public mailing lists, but… shit! That’s just
plain wierd.

What distribution are you using, and what versions of the assorted GNU
utilities (make, autoconf, automake, etc.) are you using? Are you building
your own make components using autogen.sh or are you using whatever comes
with the package? Have you tried a CVS tarball?

If anyone has any ideas, off the top of their head, that’d be cool, but
don’t worry about it too much… I’ll have a proper attempt at figuring it
out on the weekend and come back to the list if I still fail… :slight_smile:

I just think that your installation must be doing something strange. Try a
CVS tarball and going through all the rigamarole with autoconf/automake. See
if that helps.

Cheers!
David…

Nicholas

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----- Original Message -----
From: dcarson@nine.com.au (Carson, David)
To: ‘sdl at lokigames.com’
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: RE: [SDL] Installation of SDL

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Hi Nicholas, and all…

I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to
go

into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

… I don’t normally swear on public mailing lists, but… shit! That’s
just
plain wierd.

What distribution are you using, and what versions of the assorted GNU
utilities (make, autoconf, automake, etc.) are you using?

Redhat 6.1, hardly fiddled with much (kernel upgraded to 2.2.14, gcc to
2.95.2), I think all GNU utilities are still whatever came with RH6.1 (I’m
at work and the machine is at home so unfortunately I can’t tell you
exactly).

Are you building your own make components using autogen.sh or are
you using whatever comes with the package? Have you tried a CVS tarball?

Nope, just what’s in the 1.0.8 and 1.1.1 packages. Haven’t tried a CVS
tarball yet…

I just think that your installation must be doing something strange. Try a
CVS tarball and going through all the rigamarole with autoconf/automake.
See
if that helps.

I’ll certainly give it a go! Thanks!!

Cheers,
David…

6

ive seen it take a long time and create a huge file on a few systems but it
works, just let it go fro a while and it should finish, i think it has
something to do with a hackish way of handling some portablility issues or
something. i could also be totaly wrong about all of this so dont take my word
for it but let it got for a while and see what happens.

    Jess

“Carson, David” wrote:> Hi all,

Could someone please explain to me how to install SDL?

The steps I’ve taken thus far are:

  1. tar… something somthing something
  2. ./configure

I hesitate to jump in here with my problem, 'cos I’ve hardly done anything
to try to figure it out myself yet, but… :slight_smile:

I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to go
into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

(sat there for several minutes before I killed it, top showed that it was
running sed and taking all available CPU, meanwhile a several meg in size
"Makefile.in" was being created in src/audio/ )

I tried also configuring with --disable-audio but the same still happened.

This was with both SDL 1.0.8 and SDL 1.1.1, btw…

If anyone has any ideas, off the top of their head, that’d be cool, but
don’t worry about it too much… I’ll have a proper attempt at figuring it
out on the weekend and come back to the list if I still fail… :slight_smile:

Cheers!
David…

7

I had the same thing with the audio makefile. If you wait long enough it
finishes.>I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to go

into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

8

yes it took a long time on every machine I installed it on…

DaveOn Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Andrew Shakinovsky wrote:

I had the same thing with the audio makefile. If you wait long enough it
finishes.

I got that far with my installation… but the ./configure step seemed to go
into an infinite loop while creating “src/audio/Makefile”

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Hi all,

I had the same thing with the audio makefile. If you wait long enough it
finishes.

Thanks to everyone who answered… yes indeed, I waited long enough and
eventually it did finish. :slight_smile:

I’m just not used to seeing ./configure sit on one line for several
minutes… so I guess I got a bit impatient and assumed it was broken…
sorry!

Cheers!
David…