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Re: Any current plans for an SDL package?


On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:07:44PM -0500, unknown_kev_cat@hotmail.com wrote:
>>While this sounds useful, I don't think it falls in the category of a
>>Cygwin package.  Packages offered with setup depend on cygwin1.dll in
>>some form.  What you're describing above doesn't fit this mold.  I
>>think that's what Chris was trying to point out.  This would be a good
>>package for this list to know about even if it doesn't target Cygwin
>>though.
>
>That does not make much sense, as AFAIK 'mingw-zlib' does not use
>cygwin1.dll in any way.
>
>Also by that definition the mingw libraries should not be availible via
>cygwin as they are not intended to be linked with cygwin1.dll

We provided mingw-zlib for a reason.  SDL does not fall into that
reason.  We are not going to be providing mingw-only libraries in the
cygwin distribution.

cgf

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