SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz is a development library archive for Windows from this page http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
It contains a lot of garbage that is not relevant to this platform, and gives errors when unpacking with some tools.
It will be more convenient to have .zip for this archive.
Google it a bit, I found that the problem caused by the tar command in Mac OSX.
Yes and we also need a mingw64 package.________________________________
From: techtonik
To: sdl at lists.libsdl.org
Sent: Friday, May 2, 2014 9:27 AM
Subject: [SDL] SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz contains garbage
SDL-devel-1.2.15-mingw32.tar.gz is a development library archive for Windows from this page http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
It contains a lot of garbage that is not relevant to this platform, and gives errors when unpacking with some tools.
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