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Bug 4029 - -lmingw32 and -lSDL2main are not required for building libraries, only applications.
Summary: -lmingw32 and -lSDL2main are not required for building libraries, only applic...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: SDL
Classification: Unclassified
Component: main (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0.7
Hardware: x86 Windows 10
: P2 normal
Assignee: Sam Lantinga
QA Contact: Sam Lantinga
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Reported: 2018-01-07 23:38 UTC by hanetzer
Modified: 2018-02-11 08:58 UTC (History)
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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'.