The title of that website is " Ferzkopp's Linux Software" - bit of a
clue there! The library is an add-on to SDL; do you have SDL insttalled
already? The site documentation says that it compiles with a MinGW cross-
compiler, so it should be possible to compile it under MinGW on Windows. But
there is the rub, you will have to build it from source, and the build process
is probably Linux specific. There is a chance that it will build in the MSYS
environment from www.mingw.org, or if the build is simple that you could build
it with the Dev-C++ static library project template, you might look at the
appropriate build scripts/makefiles to see what is needed to build it.
To help you further I'd have to download and attempt to build it myself, but I
have no interest in doing so.
Is there any reason you need this specific library rather than one of several
possibilities from http://devpaks.org/, including SDL
and related libraries already
configured and built for use with MinGW and Dev-C++?
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Right now,I simply know the C++ language and want to be able to use the
SDL_GFX library. However, I have not learned anything or much about the
compiler/linker/makefile, and MinGW... Which is why I posted this so that i
can set it up so that i can use SDL_GFX...
Do you know where I can learn about Compilers, makefile and that sort of
thing?
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I am having trouble installing this specific library. SDL_GFX
Could someone explain how to install libraries such as this to the compiler?
http://www.ferzkopp.net/joomla/content/view/19/14/
http://www.ferzkopp.net/Software/SDL_gfx-2.0/SDL_gfx-2.0.21.tar.gz
The title of that website is " Ferzkopp's Linux Software" - bit of a
clue there! The library is an add-on to SDL; do you have SDL insttalled
already? The site documentation says that it compiles with a MinGW cross-
compiler, so it should be possible to compile it under MinGW on Windows. But
there is the rub, you will have to build it from source, and the build process
is probably Linux specific. There is a chance that it will build in the MSYS
environment from www.mingw.org, or if the build is simple that you could build
it with the Dev-C++ static library project template, you might look at the
appropriate build scripts/makefiles to see what is needed to build it.
To help you further I'd have to download and attempt to build it myself, but I
have no interest in doing so.
Is there any reason you need this specific library rather than one of several
possibilities from http://devpaks.org/, including SDL
and related libraries already
configured and built for use with MinGW and Dev-C++?
Yes, I do have SDL installed already.
Right now,I simply know the C++ language and want to be able to use the
SDL_GFX library. However, I have not learned anything or much about the
compiler/linker/makefile, and MinGW... Which is why I posted this so that i
can set it up so that i can use SDL_GFX...
Do you know where I can learn about Compilers, makefile and that sort of
thing?