When working on Windows, you might want to save a lot of effort and just use the SDL (and optionally SDL_net) .DLL files included with the latest official DOSBox release, as compiling SDL with full options (e.g. DirectX support) is a bit involved. There are also pre-built .DLL files on the SDL web site (Runtime Libraries -> Win32) that you can try at

it says i didnt need to... but i trust you so i will look.

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nope it wont work 😜 http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/franpa … untitled-12.png and i followed these http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/mingw32/README.txt

Use ./autogen.sh before.

er, same issue... where do i put the dll files? and er no success still with compiling my own sdl.

You don't put any dlls anywhere. Get the sdl sources, read their INSTALL
file thing and go through that step by step. That might or might not
require ./autogeh.sh, but will require ./configure and make to install SDL.

http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php?action=listentr … s&category=4#42

says to go to the sdl folder and type ./configure but that says no such file or folder.

edit: do i need the runtime library?

This thread is out of control.

edited above post.

yea, well... once i learn how to compile this ill consider updating the wiki... then maybe someone could extract all posts relating to me from here and putting them in a new thread?

The compiling stuff should be split off.

configure is only needed if no Makefiles are present.
SDL-devel-1.2.11-mingw32.tar.gz already has a Makefile so you need only to type make (actually make native)

1Franpa@PAUL ~/sdl-1.2.11
2$ make native
3make install prefix=/usr
4make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Franpa/sdl-1.2.11'
5make[1]: `install' is up to date.
6make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Franpa/sdl-1.2.11'

then when i go to configure the dosbox source i get

1checking for sdl-config... no
2checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no
3*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
4*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
5*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
6*** full path to sdl-config.
7configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

i think i need to change the path variable to point to the dll file included in dosbox 0.70 but how do i do this?

delete the install file 😀 (this is actually SDL fault, install should be uppercased)

Missing / in the Makefile

@ln -sf i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config $(prefix)bin/sdl-config

should be

@ln -sf i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config $(prefix)/bin/sdl-config

topic split.

ok, that makes no difference to the crash gulikoza.

gulikoza wrote:

@ln -sf i386-mingw32msvc-sdl-config $(prefix)bin/sdl-config

why (in his post and not this quote) does the space at the end contain this link?

Re: Dosbox 0.70 is out!

am i allowed to edit the makefile with notepad? if i add a space after the string of text im asked to edit then delete it then do a search for that string, the search will fail.

I have no idea what you are trying to say...what space?

Yes, you can edit the Makefile with notepad, but it's in unix format so convert it first:

unix2dos -o Makefile

i don't have to convert back to unix do i?

and er, copy the blank spot and paste it somewhere to see that link.

Funny, how did it develop that you're trying to edit makefiles? If that
doesn't work out try different SDL sources, like the one from
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
and go through the full ./autogen.sh + ./configure + make procedure.

And no, you normally don't have to convert it back to UNIX line endings.