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Bug 2521

Summary: Vanilla MinGW can't compile SDL due to missing dxgi.h
Product: SDL Reporter: bennett
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: major    
Priority: P2 CC: bennett, icculus
Version: 2.0.3   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (All)   

Description bennett 2014-05-04 22:52:37 UTC 
Since 2.01 you need minGW-w64 to compile SDL on windows, because the dxgi.h that is included in sdl_windowsvideo.c isn't included in regular minGW.org minGW. Substituting the DXGI.h from the DirectX SDK doesn't solve the problem.

If the answer is 'you need minGW-w64 to compile SDL 2.01+' which I hope it isn't for various technical reasons, then the configure script should probably tell you so. Either way, this is a bug.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2014-05-06 04:41:48 UTC 
This _should_ now be fixed in revision control (I misspoke on Twitter earlier today: we don't have MingW32 on the buildbots, just MingW64 generating 32-bit code)...naturally, without access to dxgi.h, SDL will have to report failure from SDL_DXGIGetOutputInfo(), but that's only important if you're doing Direct3D 10 or 11 stuff.

Resolving this bug, but please let me know if this gives you any further problems, as I don't have a Mingw32 install to verify this fix.

--ryan.