Re: [Mingw-users] Help a newbie understand installing libs under MinGW

[JonY <10walls@xxxxxxxxx>]

glo wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm doing my best to learn C++ and I certainly think MinGW is my style, I
> love it.
> 
> I currently have my msys folder at d:\ and inside it resides my MinGW
> installation. Everything works great when I compile my STL source-code
> assignments, but I'm getting into trouble when I try to install different
> libraries from source. So I was wondering, what is the process of building
> and installing a new library (the such of wxwidgets or sdl)? Is it possible
> under MinGW?
> Thanks, Ronh.

Hi,
with msys, most libraries can be installed via unix style "./configure" 
and make. SDL for example should be a straight forward "./configure && 
make && make install", though I suggest you do a "./configure --help" 
first to get a list of options, do not forget to check the readme help 
texts.

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