Re: [Mingw-users] Gtk

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

(Sorry for the late follow-up, but I just now remembered that I was
supposed to look into how SDL allegedly handles the problem.)

David Weisgerber writes:
 > the right place in my mingw installation ? [Why are the Gtk people not able 
 > to make it installable like SDL, for example?]

and later:
 > The only thing I can say about that is, that it worked for SDL
 > under linux / mingw AND linux / gcc

I downloaded the SDL-1.2.2 developer packages from libsdl.org, and lo
and behold, the "mingw" version does contain a sdl-config shell
script. *but*, this script contains a harcoded reference to
/usr/local/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc. Surely not a path that the
average mingw user would use?  Also, remember that if one interprets
the term "mingw" strictly, there is not necessarily any
(Bourne-compatible) shell available for a mingw user to interpret such
a shell script on Win32.

SDL had separate developer packages for VC5, VC6 and mingw. There
certainly wasn't, for instance, any installer that would automagically
had set up the headers and import libraries somewhere for MSVC to
find. (Instead, the VisualC.html file tells you to copy the .lib files
into your Project directory, etc.) I don't see what you mean by the
SDL people being able to "make it installable". A certain amount of
hand work is needed. For instance copying files around (in general, a
bad idea) or adding -I and -L switches to makefiles.

--tml