How to use SDL2, SDL2_Mixer on Cygwin Guide

You can use precompiled win32 libraries SDL, SDL2, SDL_mixer and SDL2_mixer
for compiling with your project on Cygwin the way below.

// --------------------------------------------------------
// Project:
// Purpose: How to use SDL2, SDL2_Mixer on Cygwin Guide
// Author: Ho-Jung Kim (godmode2k@hotmail.com)
// Date: May 22, 2015
// Filename: SDL2, SDL2_Mixer on Cygwin.txt
// --------------------------------------------------------
// NOTE:
// --------------------------------------------------------



// --------------------------------------------------------
// Prerequisites (My environment)
// --------------------------------------------------------

 - SDL2-devel-2.0.3-mingw.tar.gz
 - SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.0-mingw.tar.gz

You can download SDL, SDL_mixer at
http://www.libsdl.org/ and http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

 - Cygwin: Any version with build essentials all
    (My env: CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 xxx 1.7.28(0.271/5/3) xxx i686 Cygwin)

http://www.cygwin.com/



// --------------------------------------------------------
// Library home directory
// --------------------------------------------------------

* Create a directory '/sdl_lib'
* Extract the libraries
* Rename the directories


/sdl_lib

/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3
 - SDL2-devel-2.0.3-mingw.tar.gz
/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0
 - SDL2_mixer-devel-2.0.0-mingw.tar.gz



We will use the path ".../i686-w64-mingw32/..."

// SDL2 library
/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32
/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/include
/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/lib


// SDL2_mixer library
/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32



// --------------------------------------------------------
// Win32 Runtime
// --------------------------------------------------------

// SDL2
/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/lib/{x86|x64}/SDL2.dll

// SDL2_mixer
/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/SDL2_mixer.dll



// --------------------------------------------------------
// Compile
// --------------------------------------------------------

// Copy all of static libraries (archive .a) and dlls to '/sdl_lib'

// SDL2
COPY: /sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/SDL2.dll
      -> /sdl_lib
COPY: /sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/*.a
      -> /sdl_lib
COPY: /sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/lib/{x86|x64}/*.lib (NO SDL2.dll)
      -> /sdl_lib

// SDL2_mixer
COPY: /sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/bin/*.dll
      -> /sdl_lib
COPY: /sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/*.a
      -> /sdl_lib



// GCC options

// Header path
-I/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32/include
-I/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/include
-I/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/include

// Library path
// - Use below lib path or -L/sdl_lib
-L/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32/lib
-L/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/i686-w64-mingw32/bin
-L/sdl_lib/SDL2-2.0.3/lib/{x86|x64}
-L/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/lib
-L/sdl_lib/SDL2_mixer-2.0.0/i686-w64-mingw32/bin

// Linking
-lSDL2main -lSDL2 -lSDL2_mixer





done.



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