MinGW requires both the MinGW system and MSYS.

There is a script for generating a series of GNU makefiles targeted

at MinGW on Windows. These makefiles will build the SDL library and

test executables with static links to libgcc and the same features

as the Visual Studio builds. That is, they have full OpenGL support

and they have no dependency on MinGW.

After generating the scripts, simply navigate to the directory in

a MSYS terminal and execute:

    make

If you wish to clean the directory, you can use either the clean

batch file, or call:

    make clean

The former will remove the actual makefiles and the latter will

perform a typical clean operation. You can target specific

build configurations as such:

    make config=debug

Verbosity is initially set to off. All verbosity controls is

whether the resulting gcc and ar commands are printed to the

console. You can enable verbose output by setting verbose to any

value:

    make verbose=1

There is currently no install target, but that is intended

eventually.

Ben:

There is no DirectX support currently, but you can use the

command option '--directx' when generating the makefiles to

explicitly force the DirectX dependency on. This may have

undefined behavior, so use it cautiously.