SDL_Net with mingw

SDL Development
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hey, has anyone gotten SDL_Net to work with mingw (or dev-C++)? when i
download the binaries or source, neither has a .a file which is what i
needed to get sdl working. I cant seem to figure out how to compile sdl_net
sources into a .a file either ):

can anybody help me?

Thanx
Atrix

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Alan Wolfe:

hey, has anyone gotten SDL_Net to work with mingw (or dev-C++)? when i
download the binaries or source, neither has a .a file which is what i
needed to get sdl working. I cant seem to figure out how to compile
sdl_net sources into a .a file either ):

I’m having the same trouble.
It seems that you’ll have to link SDL_net against winsock, but don’t ask me
how to do it. =(
I’ve got some results with Cygwin, but at the price of significative
performance loss.

If you suceed, please let me know!

Francesco Orsenigo, Xarvh Project

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Actualy Francesco i heard this from someone but have not yet had a chance to
test it.

They said all i needed to do was -lSDL_Net and put SDL_Net.dll in the folder
where my code was (or same place your sdlmain.dll etc is).

I hope this works…> ----- Original Message -----

From: xarvh@lombardiacom.it (Francesco Orsenigo)
To:
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL_Net with mingw

Alan Wolfe:

hey, has anyone gotten SDL_Net to work with mingw (or dev-C++)? when i
download the binaries or source, neither has a .a file which is what i
needed to get sdl working. I cant seem to figure out how to compile
sdl_net sources into a .a file either ):

I’m having the same trouble.
It seems that you’ll have to link SDL_net against winsock, but don’t ask
me
how to do it. =(
I’ve got some results with Cygwin, but at the price of significative
performance loss.

If you suceed, please let me know!

Francesco Orsenigo, Xarvh Project

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http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

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Francesco, what i told you before about being able to do -lSDL_Net does
indeed work! I could not get it to work in Dev-C++ for some reason (kept
saying -lSDL_Net not found) but i got it to work in mingw w/o Dev-C++. Just
make sure SDL_Net.dll is in your lib folder and to be analy-paranoid i also
put it in the folder with my source code. I hope this works for you as
well…

-Atrix> ----- Original Message -----

From: xarvh@lombardiacom.it (Francesco Orsenigo)
To:
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SDL] SDL_Net with mingw

Alan Wolfe:

hey, has anyone gotten SDL_Net to work with mingw (or dev-C++)? when i
download the binaries or source, neither has a .a file which is what i
needed to get sdl working. I cant seem to figure out how to compile
sdl_net sources into a .a file either ):

I’m having the same trouble.
It seems that you’ll have to link SDL_net against winsock, but don’t ask
me
how to do it. =(
I’ve got some results with Cygwin, but at the price of significative
performance loss.

If you suceed, please let me know!

Francesco Orsenigo, Xarvh Project

SDL mailing list
SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

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Atrix Wolfe:

Francesco, what i told you before about being able to do -lSDL_Net does
indeed work! I could not get it to work in Dev-C++ for some reason (kept
saying -lSDL_Net not found) but i got it to work in mingw w/o Dev-C++.
Just make sure SDL_Net.dll is in your lib folder and to be analy-paranoid i
also put it in the folder with my source code. I hope this works for you
as well…

Thanks, it will be helpful!
BTW, does anyone knows about a multiplayer RTS based on tight server/client
system and maybe SDL?
I’d like to look to the network code, and also i’d like to know how the
client may spawn a connected server when hosting a game… threads do not
seem to be useful for that purpose (well, i know nothing about
multithreading…)

The only way SDL_net supports connection is through SDL_Connect(), or there
is something even somewhat comparable with socketpair() ?

Thank you all!
Francesco Orsenigo, Xarvh Project