Re: Need libraries for Win32, but not cygwin nor VC2005

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:13:14PM -0400, George Brink wrote:
> Julien,
> 
> Thanks for promptly reply, but...
> 
> First, let me describe my environment: I use MinGW under Windows XP and 
> Windows Vista. I do not use MSYS. I prefer to compile my programs with 
> mingw32-make directly from Window's cmd.exe, or run it from .bat file. That 
> allows me to compile Win32 program without any additions (like VS2005 
> manifests, cygwin.dll or any other kind of extra dlls at all), my programs 
> require only msvcrt.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll for system level shared 
> libraries and able to run even on Win'98 (yes, I still have it too). No 
> manifests, no cygwin.dll, not even mingw10.dll.
> But without MSYS or Cygwin environment I can not use configure script.
> MinGW's gcc can import and use libraries from VC6 or VS2003 for any 
> additional libraries (what's how I write for SDL).
> But I do not have VC6 myself and therefore can not compile Agar with it.
> I have VS Toolkit 2003, but it does not understand .vsproj files. (Makefiles 
> for nmake would be useful for me.)
> 
> I even downloaded and install cygwin, tried to run configure, and it failed 
> with 'no SDL installed', by looking in configure script I see it is looking 
> for sdl-config file, but in my environment I have just SDL.dll, SDL.lib and 
> SDLmain.lib (from precompiled VC6 package I downloaded from libsdl.org)
> For SDL I can even compile without import libraries at all:
>   gcc -c -o hello.o -IC:\xlibs\include hello.c
>   gcc -o hello.exe -d C:\xlibs\bin\SDL.dll C:\xlibs\lib\winmain.o hello.o
> And that is directly from windows' own command line shell cmd.exe.

What you need to do in this case is to compile SDL from source into your