Making a windows binary for me?

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Hi!

I’m currently developing a little game in SDL, and I need a windows binary of the game. The problem is that i don’t have Windows on my machine, so I was wondering, if anyone would take up this quest, and compile a windows binary that I can distribute. The source can be found at http://lulf.org/projs/xpchess-0.4.tar.gz

Thank you…-------------------------------------------------
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I, too, don’t have any Windows systems. In the past, though, I’ve used
a cross-compiler on my Linux box to build some of my games, and threw in
the SDL .dll’s off of the libSDL website. ZIP it all up, give it to people
to test, and it worked :^)

These days, I prefer people with actual Windows machines to put stuff
together, esp. since there’s cool stuff like NSIS they can use…
But still, in a pinch, you can build your own.

Check out:

http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross/

Good luck!

-bill!On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:55:43PM +0200, u.lilleeng at c2i.net wrote:

Hi!

I’m currently developing a little game in SDL, and I need a windows binary of the game. The problem is that i don’t have Windows on my machine, so I was wondering, if anyone would take up this quest, and compile a windows binary that I can distribute. The source can be found at http://lulf.org/projs/xpchess-0.4.tar.gz

–
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u.lilleeng at c2i.net wrote:

Hi!

I’m currently developing a little game in SDL, and I need a windows binary of the game. The problem is that i don’t have Windows on my machine, so I was wondering, if anyone would take up this quest, and compile a windows binary that I can distribute. The source can be found at http://lulf.org/projs/xpchess-0.4.tar.gz

Thank you…

Hi, I made a Windows binary using Cygwin.
I had some trouble… like:

  1. You used:

int main(void)

which isn’t the same as the one in SDL.h so it couldn’t compile.

  1. You used:
    #define GAMEDIR “/usr/share/xpchess/”

to load the graphics… which is not a Good Thing ™ to do if you want
you game to be cross-platform. I have changed it to my path, which is
also not good, because if I send you the .exe you’ll have to copy
everything to exacly the same place.

  1. You should use sdl-config --cflags to compile
    and sdl-config --libs to link. It would make your Makefile useful on
    other platforms.

  2. I haven’t got the clue how to play the game, haven’t found anything
    in the README or other files… is it played with mouse or keyboard?
    All I managed is to find out that Q - quits the game.
    So I’m not really sure if it works…–
    Milan Babuskov
    http://njam.sourceforge.net

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Hello !

The source can be found at http://lulf.org/projs/xpchess-0.4.tar.gz

I would do a windows binary, but the file isn?t online anymore.

CU

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try http://eirikn.net/lulf/projs/xpchess-0.5.tar.gz> -----Original Message-----

From: sdl-bounces+t_mills=telus.net at libsdl.org
[mailto:sdl-bounces+t_mills=telus.net at libsdl.org]On Behalf Of Torsten
Giebl
Sent: June 29, 2003 11:55 AM
To: sdl at libsdl.org
Subject: Re: [SDL] Making a windows binary for me?

Hello !

The source can be found at http://lulf.org/projs/xpchess-0.4.tar.gz

I would do a windows binary, but the file isn?t online anymore.

CU

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