[MPlayer-dev-eng] cygwin/mingw win32 port?

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Fri May 24 00:50:43 CEST 2002


On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:26:27PM +0200, Fredrik Kuivinen wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:01:10PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > Not to mention SDL is a bitch to compile on cygwin, and the only
> > windows SDL binaries are for mingw for some dumb reason. Also, SDL
> > likes to get rid of stdin/out/err on windows, which is lame. :(
> 
> IIRC SDL redirects stdout/stderr to a file called 'stdout.txt' or
> something similiar.

Right. Which is good for newbie-friendly games for windows, etc., but
BAD for porting unix programs!

Rich




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