1 MinGW requires both the MinGW system and MSYS.

     2 

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

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

     5 test executables with static links to libgcc and the same features

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

     7 and they have no dependency on MinGW.

     8 

     9 After generating the scripts, simply navigate to the directory in

    10 a MSYS terminal and execute:

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    12     make

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

    15 batch file, or call:

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    17     make clean

    18 

    19 The former will remove the actual makefiles and the latter will

    20 perform a typical clean operation. You can target specific

    21 build configurations as such:

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    23     make config=debug

    24 

    25 Verbosity is initially set to off. All verbosity controls is

    26 whether the resulting gcc and ar commands are printed to the

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

    28 value:

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    30     make verbose=1

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    32 There is currently no install target, but that is intended

    33 eventually.

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    35 Ben:

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

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

    38 explicitly force the DirectX dependency on. This may have

    39 undefined behavior, so use it cautiously.