On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote:
> On 7/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > teeemcee
> > 2007-07-26 02:36:06 -0700 (Thu, 26 Jul 2007)
> > 390
> > SDL_mixer.dll 1.2.8 compiled with libmad instead of SMPEG, weird frequency 
> > MP3 files play just the same as OGG files
> >
> > But since MP3 are now never played, I could compile a very with no MP3 
> > support at all to reduce the size a bit. 660kb is awfully large, but its 
> > smaller than the SMPEG version.
> >
> > I'm not aware what version of SDL_Mixer Simon uploaded - maybe there are 
> > some hidden bug fixes?
> > ---
> > U   wip/SDL_mixer.dll
> >
> 
> While it may appear that James jumped the gun on libmad (wow, that was
> a lot of work on his part), infact it took me 3 days of tweaking
> configure, libtool and makefile scripts and environmental variables to
> get SDL_Mixer and all its dependencies to compile and link to a stand
> alone dll in Msys/Mingw (I didn't want to attempt to cross compile
> from linux - but then I wouldn't have run into all those msys/libtool
> bugs). From this experience, I learnt libtool isn't much use (at least
> not on msys) - in the end I had to call gcc manually because libtool
> disobeyed its own settings.

Thanks for doing that!

I still think that converting MP3 and WAV to OGG is a Good Thing, but 
it is also great to have an SDL_mixer dll that Does The Right Thing

---
James Paige
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