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I was following this tutorial, and I got to the part where it says to download SDL2-devel-2.0.9-mingw.tar.gz, but it doesn't say what I'm actually supposed to do with it. I feel like it's supposed to be obvious, but I'm a bit inexperienced with this kind of thing. I'd be more than willing to learn, though.

jacob2

Put it in the same place as the other libraries (C:\MinGW)

I recommend using the visual studio guide instead, but the MinGW guide may work Post in this thread if you get any other problems.

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I tried that, but it still failed at "Checking for C library SDL2main". I managed to open the file using 7zip and somehow get the correct libraries out of it anyway, I think, but now it just stops somewhere else.

$ scons.py
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Checking whether the C compiler works... yes
Checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
Checking if 64 bit... no
Adding 32 bit compile flags
Checking for C library mingw32... yes
Checking for C library ws2_32... yes
Checking for C library SDL2main... yes
Checking for C library SDL2... yes
Checking for C header file SDL2/SDL.h... yes
Checking for C library lua5.1... yes
Checking for C header file lua5.1/lua.h... yes
Checking for C library fftw3f... yes
Checking for C library bz2... yes
Checking for C header file bzlib.h... yes
Checking for C library z... yes
Checking for C library curl... no
Checking for C library libcurl... no
libcurl not found or not installed

jacob1

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I guess the guide hasn't been updated with libcurl, that's a new library we added.

The only way to get it is to compile and install libcurl: https://curl.haxx.se/download.html

(I don't have instructions on how to do this, it's probably not too difficult though)

You could also use the more supported visual studio guide. The MinGW guide is so out of date that I don't think the compiler is supported much anymore.

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