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Bug 4029

Summary: -lmingw32 and -lSDL2main are not required for building libraries, only applications.
Product: SDL Reporter: hanetzer
Component: mainAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: sezeroz
Version: 2.0.7   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows 10   

Description hanetzer 2018-01-07 23:38:31 UTC 
Unsure how one would handle this correctly, but the only time
(on mingw-w64, at least) one needs to link libSDL2main.a and
libmingw32.a (and possibly the -mwindows flag) is when you're
building an actual 'application', that is, something that starts
executing at main().

There should be a way to make sdl2-config or pkg-config and friends
differentiate between 'linking to sdl2 to make a library (like SDL2_ttf)'
and 'linking to sdl2 to make a game/executable'.