Cygwin (MS Windows 10) - SDL

Hello!

I am very new to this forum and i have a question.

I use:
- WINDOWS 10, 64 Bit
- CYGWIN_NT-10.0 DESKTOP-08V6D05 2.10.0(0.325/5/3) 2018-02-02 15:16 x86_64 Cygwin (used "uname -a")
- SDL
- X-Windows (Xorg Server)

So, i can compile with GCC (gcc foo.c -lsdl) a graphic application in X-WINDOWS. All runs fine!

BUT, when i try to run this application direct in Windows i get always the error that 2 DLL's are missing:

1) cygwin1.dll
2) cygSDL-1-2-0.dll

I copied these 2 files from fresh and original Cygwin Directory to this folder where the executable (a.exe) is to see what happened.

Result: I see a fast console popup and nothing happened.

Question: How can i run / start kind of these (graphic) application in native Windows made in Cygwin?

If it requires X-Windows (Xorg Server) I do not know of a simple way.

If you remove X-Windows in Cygwin does it run? If yes, then you likely need to copy a few more DLLs.

Note: I would suggest trying to build using the MinGW64 GCC toolkit that should be much easier to get to run under native Windows.

Tim S.

Thanks Tim,

I tried to copy with all DLL's (from CygWin) to test, but result is the same (console popup for a second and then close)

Yes, i agree, with MinGW the chance that it should be run in native Windows should be higher.

EDIT: I tried with:
1) cygwin1.dll
2) cygSDL-1-2-0.dll
"ONLY" a console app and it works in native Windows. Hmm