Hello to all,
First, I would like to apology for the long post : 4 Ko (boring) text + 3
Ko included gzipped (useless) files. Please ignore my bad english too.
I try to recompile the SDL-1.2.2 and some of its `associated’ libraries,
like SDL_image-1.2.0, under the Cygnus Cygwin B20 environnement which
provide the egcs-2.91.57 compiler under Win32 systems, and all the shell
(bash) and unix-like environnement that usually make easy the port from/to
linux/unix. Both host and system type are i586-pc-cygwin (uname says
"CYGWIN_98-4.10"). The cygwin compiler is a modified MingW32 compiler, and
all that follows will unhesitatingly apply to the MinGW32 compiler.
The reason I want to recompile these libraries is that if you wanna use
them into your programs, you must have respective .lib files, but GNU Win32
compilers require .a (and .la) files instead, and the latter ones are almost
never supplied (the exception is SDL itself). Am I wrong ? So you must make
them yourself.
After a few try-error cycles with the configure script, I understood two
things :
-
In some case, configure can’t find some gnu programs even if you’ve got
then on the path. I Dunno why. You should :
a) Either set variables under DOS. A good method is to write the following
code into cygnus.bat (where point the quick link of the start bar), just
before the “bash” command. This way you won’t have to set them again.
<<>>
SET CC=gcc
SET LD=ld
SET DLLTOOL=dlltool
SET AS=as
SET OBJDUMP=objdump
<<>>
b) Or export from inside the bash shell, but you’ll need to do it
everytime you run the shell. Type the following code from the shell
command-line.
<<>>
export CC=gcc
export LD=ld
export DLLTOOL=dlltool
export AS=as
export OBJDUMP=objdump
<<>> -
I have found a `bug’ in the configure file: the executable extension
isn’t “.exe”. To fix it :
Edit ./configure with your favorite editor.
Find the following line (#615 in SDL-1.2.2 main dir, #545 in SDL_image-1.2.0
main dir) :
<<>>
ac_exeext=
<<>>
Change it to :
<<>>
ac_exeext=".exe"
<<>>But after all this, I still can’t compile the libraries. I can’t even
have a makefile to look and hack. For example: SDL-1.2.2. I provide with the
generated config.log, plus the file makingof.exe generated by “./configure >
makingof.txt 2>&1”, both are gzipped. Look at the latter. At the lines
#46-104, there is a lot of sed errors (caused by the sed expression line
#2781), but I can’t see the reason since I’m not a sed expert. Then at lines
#137-260, there is also a lot of sed errors (caused by the sed expression
lines #9518-9523), and creation of all Makefile; a `big’ problem is that all
these makefiles are empty, as do SDL.spec and sdl-config files. Isn’t that
weird ?!Well, can the maintainers of the Makefile.* have a look at all this, may
he could save us. Maybe it’s a larger problem than the one we can see, it
may be an autotool problem, or worse… Please H-E-L-P !, as Leeloo said.Otherwise there is another solution (the easy way, the evil one): try to
supply the .a (and .la) files within the SDL* packages, as best as the
packages maintainers could. It shouldn’t be difficult since the one that
compiles under Linux would merely compiles under Linux with XMinGW32
cross-compiler.Think it over, and give some suggestions. Thanks for support anyway.
Best regards,
IoDream.
P.S.: Where can I find the DX5 headers (needed to compile SDL with DX
suppot) ? I don’t know if Microsoft has still them on its website; if not,
you should include them on libsdl.org. On the other hand, if I’ve got DX7 or
DX8 headers, do you think I use them in place of it ? (sorry, I can’t do
beta-testing on it, seeing that I’m not a DX programmer, I would surely make
a mistake and unintentionally mislead you)
P.S.2;):(Off topic) Hey Sam, may you explain where does your Loki’s nickname
"Hercules" come from (wishing you don’t get annoyed with me) ?
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