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From: "Chris January" <chris AT atomice DOT net>
To: "Cygwin AT Cygwin DOT Com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Any current plans for an SDL package?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 15:53:07 -0000
Message-ID: <ICEBIHGCEJIPLNMBNCMKCEPICPAA.chris@atomice.net>
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> Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 unknown_kev_cat AT hotmail DOT com wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The only thing I found missing really are the libraries' header files.
> >>
> >>One such library is libjpeg, which has no development package, and i
> >>believe there was some compression lib also.
> >
> >
> > The headers are in jpeg-6b-11.tar.bz2. As I don't see libjpeg
> > or any compression library linked in my libSDL and libSDL_mixer
> > libraries on Linux (I never tried on Windows), I'm assuming all
> > missing headers are to compile SDL-image.
> >
> > It'd be nice if you could post the errors or any links to
> > e-mails.
> >
> >
> >>Remember that I am talking about SDL, SDL-mixer, and
> >>SDL-image, as most programs that use one use all 3 (but it
> >>would not be difficult to package them as 3 seperate
> >>packages)
> >
> >
> As i now have the headers i cannot post the errors.
>
> At this point i have decided that I should try to make sdl linked with
> cygwin1.dll, this should be possible without too much work, but using
> mingw sounds like it is at least slightly more common.
>
> If i can make the lib like that i will have to see if i can find anybody
> who can maintain the packages.

I would love to have a Cygwin linked SDL and am willing to maintain it if
you are prepared to package it in the first place (along with SDL-mixer and
SDL-image).

Chris


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