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I'm taking a page from Dolphin's book, and including copies of each dependency's source code. This combines the ease of use of including pre-built libraries instead of needing to navigate a package manager - as is (or was) the case for MSVC - with the portability of using packages. Granted, this method's more of a jack of all trades, master of none, since it's *less* user-friendly than prebuilt packages (compilation times), and you don't get the per-distro compatibility fixes you'd get from a package manager. You can still use system libs if you want. In fact, it's still the default behaviour: compiling the libs manually is just a fallback. I'll add an option to force-enable this soon, however, since it's a nicer way to produce static MSYS2 builds than the hackish nightmare that I was using before. Not to mention, having my own copy of the sources means I can provide my own fixes and tweaks your package manager may not. For example, I can combine MSYS2's FreeType subpixel rendering with vcpkg's fix for SDL2 exporting its symbols in static builds.
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CMake
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(www.cmake.org)
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SDL's build system was traditionally based on autotools. Over time, this
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approach has suffered from several issues across the different supported
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platforms.
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To solve these problems, a new build system based on CMake is under development.
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It works in parallel to the legacy system, so users can experiment with it
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without complication.
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While still experimental, the build system should be usable on the following
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platforms:
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* FreeBSD
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* Linux
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* VS.NET 2010
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* MinGW and Msys
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* OS X with support for XCode
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Usage
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Assuming the source for SDL is located at ~/sdl
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cd ~
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mkdir build
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cd build
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cmake ../sdl
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This will build the static and dynamic versions of SDL in the ~/build directory.
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