MinGW on MSYS total newbie question

SDL Development
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Hello,
I’m using Windows 2000, I have MinGW installed under MSYS.
I downloaded SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz to write an application in
C++ using SDL. As far as I understand this file is the only thing I
need, the website says “Developer Library for Windows”.
The file contains another archive i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which seems to
contain the essential stuff. It contains 4 directories:
bin
include
lib
share
Now it’s clear that include and lib have to be copied to msys\1.0\MinGW
directory, but where do share and bin belong to? And what are the files
in bin (“sdl-config”) and share (“aclocal\sdl.m4”) good for? The
"documentation" included in SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz doesn’t tell
anything about this “installation process”.

regards
C. Blue

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C. Blue wrote:> Hello,

I’m using Windows 2000, I have MinGW installed under MSYS.
I downloaded SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz to write an application in
C++ using SDL. As far as I understand this file is the only thing I
need, the website says “Developer Library for Windows”.
The file contains another archive i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which seems
to contain the essential stuff. It contains 4 directories:
bin
include
lib
share
Now it’s clear that include and lib have to be copied to msys\1.0\MinGW
directory, but where do share and bin belong to? And what are the
files in bin (“sdl-config”) and share (“aclocal\sdl.m4”) good for? The
"documentation" included in SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz doesn’t
tell anything about this “installation process”.

regards
C. Blue

3

(I was advised to not use “reply to” when I want to start a new topic.
I’m sorry about it, so here is the proper version of my mail now)

I’m using Windows 2000, I have MinGW installed under MSYS.
I downloaded SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz to write an application in
C++ using SDL. As far as I understand this file is the only thing I
need, the website says “Developer Library for Windows”.
The file contains another archive i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which seems to
contain the essential stuff. It contains 4 directories:
bin
include
lib
share
Now it’s clear that include and lib have to be copied to msys\1.0\MinGW
directory, but where do share and bin belong to? And what are the files
in bin (“sdl-config”) and share (“aclocal\sdl.m4”) good for? The
documentation included in SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz doesn’t tell
anything about this installation process.

regards
C. Blue

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At first, I do not use MinGW.

sdl-config and sdl.m4 are used by other libs/apps to check whether a valid
SDL lib is installed.
These things are described in the linux faq at http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php

I suppose that bin and share have to be installed in “msys\1.0\MinGW”, too.
msys\1.0\MinGW\bin should be in the path variable.

Possibly, you’ll have to correct the prefix variable within the sdl-config
script to "msys\1.0\MinGW"On Wednesday 21 August 2002 08:03, C. Blue wrote:

The file contains another archive i386-mingw32msvc.tar.gz which seems to
contain the essential stuff. It contains 4 directories:
bin
include
lib
share
Now it’s clear that include and lib have to be copied to msys\1.0\MinGW
directory, but where do share and bin belong to? And what are the files
in bin (“sdl-config”) and share (“aclocal\sdl.m4”) good for? The
documentation included in SDL-devel-1.2.4-mingw32.tar.gz doesn’t tell
anything about this installation process.

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Johannes Schmidt

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