Hi there I noticed someone say they couldnt find a
SDL_Mixer.a, well thats because you have to build it
yourself! Its pretty easy. And since I love DevC++ and
free programming tools in general, Ill help yalls out
with this 
let me say that I had a pretty hard time
finding this out on my own!
So ok, this process will make your mingw .a library.
You can do this with any (yes any!) .DLL you need a
library for. You need only two tools. If you have
DevC++, look in the DevC++\bin directory. Mingw
should be the same, in the BIN folder.
The two programs are called dlltool.exe and idef.exe
copy them to a folder like C:\convert or something,
because you will need to go to MSDOS mode (assuming
you have windows->sorry I dont know about other OSâs!)
**for dlltool to work properly, youâll also need to
copy ar.exe and as.exe to that same directory.
now move whatever .dll you need a library for to that
directory. Type this to get a .def file (the imports)
you need that file to make the archive.
simply use this, assuming the dll is called
âwhatever.dllâ:
idef whatever.dll
bam, now you have the .def, so go make the .a using
dlltool with this line.
dlltool --input-def whatever.def --dllname
whatever.dll --output-lib libwhatever.a
Note: the article I read says something about a -k
switch at the end of that line. I havent used it and
everything seems to work fine, but if for some reason
you have problems that could be a factor.
Hope this helps someone! (and you can help me back by
telling me how to compile .DLLâs in DevCâŚ! )
my email:@Jason_Robertson
happy (free!) coding ;)__________________________________________________
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