Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:24:46 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Any current plans for an SDL package? Message-ID: <20031124012446.GA31953@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20031122024809 DOT GA28328 AT redhat DOT com> <6 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 22 DOT 0 DOT 20031123173938 DOT 0384b850 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:07:44PM -0500, unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com wrote: >>While this sounds useful, I don't think it falls in the category of a >>Cygwin package. Packages offered with setup depend on cygwin1.dll in >>some form. What you're describing above doesn't fit this mold. I >>think that's what Chris was trying to point out. This would be a good >>package for this list to know about even if it doesn't target Cygwin >>though. > >That does not make much sense, as AFAIK 'mingw-zlib' does not use >cygwin1.dll in any way. > >Also by that definition the mingw libraries should not be availible via >cygwin as they are not intended to be linked with cygwin1.dll We provided mingw-zlib for a reason. SDL does not fall into that reason. We are not going to be providing mingw-only libraries in the cygwin distribution. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/