Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Difficulty building project using mingw-cross-env

[Volker Grabsch]

Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> schrieb:
> Tony Theodore <address@hidden> schrieb:
> > which is achieved by passing the
> > --with-sdl-prefix='$PREFIX/i686-pc-mingw32' to configure. However, it
> > still fails with the same error (here at least).
> 
> I think the real problem is the usage of AC_CHECK_LIB, which is in
> most cases (such as here) inappropriate. I recommend to use the
> PKG_CONFIG_* macros instead.

Additional note: It appears that at least Debian doesn't provide
the pkg-config scripts of SDL_mixer and SDL_image. WTF?!

So although using the PKG_CONFIG_* macros is the easiest and the
Right way, it is currently not portable. *sigh*

> Note, however, that there might be a bugfix needed in mingw-cross-env
> to ensure that `i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config  SDL_image  (--static) --libs`
> really lists all needed libraries.

Additional note: I just fixed these issues. Please pull the latest
development version of mingw-cross-env.

> However, this is an indepdent problem, and solving that problem will
> only help when the project uses PKG_CONFIG_* instead of AC_CHECK_LIB.

Additional note: Attached is a proposal for a patch for tuxtype.

With that patch and the most recent mingw-cross-env, you should be
able to build your programs via:

    ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 --without-sdlpango --without-rsvg


Also, feel free to propose the addition of "sdlpango" and "rsvg"
to mingw-cross-env in case you need them.

Surprisingly, the exact same patch seems to work for tuxmath, too.
However, tuxmath then fails because of some ICONV issue.


Greets,

    Volker

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