Post date: Sep 15, 2012 5:3:41 PM
I found a site with video instructions for building SFML 2.0 in MinGW. I modified the instructions slightly for MSYS.
CMake is required.
You can use curl to directly download the latest source, or follow the github link and save to $HOME.
If you have a previous version of SFML, uninstall it. rm worked for me:
rm /usr/local/lib/libsfml*
rm -rfi /usr/local/include/SFML
Copy the latest source from github (TODO: install curl):
curl -LOJ https://github.com/SFML/SFML/tarball/master
Extract the source (filename changes with git commit ID):
tar xvfz SFML-SFML-2.4.0-19-g746bb9c.tar.gz
You can ignore the failure status, there's an empty link for an OSX resources file. Change to the directory:
cd SFML-SFML-*
Create makefiles with CMake (Note that there are no spaces between command line switch and argument):
cmake .. -G"MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release \
-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=TRUE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .
Build the library and install to /usr/local:
make
make install
Without specifying CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, default install location is %PROGRAMFILES%/SFML. Installing there requires running your MSYS terminal as Administrator.
Now, you can follow the rest of SFML Coder's tutorials.
The official SFML site also has tutorials.