I'm trying to statically link sdl2 for windows and linux.

Here's my current makefile:

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When I make for linux everything works fine, but when i make for windows i get the following errors:

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here's the github repo if it helps. I'm running linux mint

Any help is much appreciated!

While `pkg-config` appears to be generating the list of libraries that it should, that output suggests that your linker cannot find whatever folder those libraries are within.

You first will want to install the SDL2 development libraries with the below commands, and install a cross-compiler, which can build programs for other OSes and archetectures. In this case we want to use mingw. This can be accomplished via the below commands. You should definitely add a "building" section to your readme, as it is a pain for users to get started with it, which includes the packages they should install.


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However, one of the main issues that we face is that while mingw provides many already cross-compiled libraries, the ones you want to use are not. So, we need to build static versions of each of these libraries. We'll start with the SDL2 one. Note that we "could" just install the already packaged one, but this is going to have to be done for each library, so may as well get used to it.
Download the SDL2 source, and run the following commands from inside of it:


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Boom, we have a cross-compiled SDL2 library that we can use! It is installed into /usr/local/win64/.

Next, you'll want to properly set up your makefile. It's generally easier if you use variables rather than specifying targets when building, and in this case we can use the following makefile, where we can change the objects we want to generate and the headers needed quite easily:


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Now we can run make os=linux to build for linux, and everything works as expected. When we do make os=windows however, we are met with the following error:


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Surprise suprise, you aren't just asking how to compile and link against SDL2. You've got an array of other libraries that are used, namely SDL2_image, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_ttf, and glm. These libraries have to built statically for the cross compile now!

First let's set up some common variables so we don't need to do this before every execution. Note that this requires you to use the same terminal window the whole time! If you close the terminal window, just rerun these commands:


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Let's start with SDL2_image. We just need PNG support, so it depends on zlib and libpng. Download the zlib source, and run the following commands within it:


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Next, download the libpng source, and run the following commands within it:


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Next, download the SDL2_image source, and run the following commands within it:


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You've now successfully built and installed the cross-compiled SDL2_image library. Now let's build the SDL_mixer library tomorrow. First though, be sure to change the following lines in your code; as this is not the correct include paths you should be using:


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Ok so I've followed all of your instructions, and got everything working up to the point you described. So how exactly do I build SDL_image and SDL_ttf and SDL_mixer? I downloaded the src for them, but it's not the same setup as the sdl2 source so I can't follow the same instructions as for SDL2.