This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

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• full link errors (cygwin SDL link error.txt, text/plain, 2013-12-11 19:40:04 +0000, 6981 bytes)
• Cygwin uuid library shadowing patch (uuid.patch, text/plain, 2014-02-19 23:08:58 +0000, 907 bytes)

Reported in version: 2.0.1
Reported for operating system, platform: Windows 7, x86

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2013-12-11 19:40:04 +0000, Brian Minton wrote:

Created attachment 1495
full link errors

This applies to 2.0.1 and latest hg as well.

When building static or shared libraries on cygwin 1.7.25 on Windows 7 (32-bit), I get the following link errors:

build/.libs/SDL_windowskeyboard.o: In function UIElementSink_QueryInterface@12': /home/c-bminton/src/SDL/src/video/windows/SDL_windowskeyboard.c:995: undefined reference to IID_IUnknown'
build/.libs/SDL_windowskeyboard.o: In function IPPASink_QueryInterface@12': /home/c-bminton/src/SDL/src/video/windows/SDL_windowskeyboard.c:1101: undefined reference to IID_IUnknown'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:126: recipe for target 'build/libSDL2.la' failed
make: *** [build/libSDL2.la] Error 1

On 2014-02-19 23:08:58 +0000, Robert Williamson wrote:

Created attachment 1565
Cygwin uuid library shadowing patch

I had the same issue, it's related to a shadowed uuid library. See:

http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg106029.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.ports.general/736

I worked around it with the attached patch based off of
https://code.google.com/p/mintty/source/diff?spec=svn1025&r=1025&format=side&path=/trunk/Makefile

On 2014-02-22 23:35:06 +0000, Sam Lantinga wrote:

Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/751605725282