What is the status of win32 support at the moment?
And would it be possible to do a native build with cygwin/mingw32?
What is the status of win32 support at the moment?
It’s stable – supports WinNT using the GDI interface and Win95 using
DirectX
And would it be possible to do a native build with cygwin/mingw32?
Yes, though I haven’t done it.
Anybody here have pointers or hints on doing a native build with
cygwin/mingw32? If someone puts together a working native mingw32
toolchain for SDL, I’ll make it available at devolution.com
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)–
Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
Actually, I could not get win95 apps to run with directx, I got this error
message:
Couldn’t initialize SDL: DirectInputDevice::SetCooperativeLevel: Unknown DirectInput error: 0x80004001
Now that I think about it, it might lack of a joystick, but I doubt it. Anyone
have any other ideas?
Actually, I could not get win95 apps to run with directx, I got this error
message:Couldn’t initialize SDL: DirectInputDevice::SetCooperativeLevel:
Unknown DirectInput error: 0x80004001
0x80004001 is DIERR_UNSUPPORTED
“The function called is not supported at this time. This value is equal
to the E_NOTIMPL standard COM return value.”
I have a program that converts the error messages from the DirectX
helpfiles to a HUGE switch statement reporting the correct error. (I did
this because the DX header files are completely incomprehensible.)
If anyone wants the resultant code, I have functions that decode
DirectDraw, DirectInput, and DirectSound errors from DX5. (Just email
me) I wouldn’t give out the original program because it’s embarassing. 
-Chuck
Couldn’t initialize SDL: DirectInputDevice::SetCooperativeLevel: Unknown DirectInput error: 0x80004001
Do you have the latest version of DirectX?
Which version of DirectX do you have?
See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)–
Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
Couldn’t initialize SDL: DirectInputDevice::SetCooperativeLevel:
Unknown DirectInput error: 0x80004001Do you have the latest version of DirectX?
Uhh… I don’t know.
Which version of DirectX do you have?
4.05.00.0155, if you know what that means. 
-Chuck
And would it be possible to do a native build with cygwin/mingw32?
Yes! Grab the native compiler from
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/Xmingw32/
Unpack it, unpack the SDL source, run the mingw32.bat script, cd to the
SDL source directory, and type “make”
It’s that simple.
Oh, caveat, the compiler only works reliably on Windows NT.