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On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I think the biggest issue is library naming and static/dynamic libraries.
> Allegro library naming should be fine as it is, but on Windows library
> names can vary depending where you get them from. IMO the best thing to do
> is use the latest source archives of each dependency and use the default
> names those give to the libraries. Sometimes static/dynamic have different
> names so account for that. For things we can't distribute, document what
> you need to do. For example you should build with the latest DirectX SDK.
> You'll need the platform SDK installed for MinGW and for audio you need to
> copy a few headers (sal.h and 1-2 related.)
>
True. I saw that Mical uses quite a bit more verbose names for his DLLs.
I think some of the issues may be solved with mingw64 - it does not
need any SDK or extra headers - their support for DirectX and win32
API is quite a bit more complete.