With -mwindows enabled, the console examples do not produce any output.
I think this should be disabled for MinGW, as is the case with cygwin, since it is meant to be used when compiling Windows GUI apps and will prevent stdout/stderr from reaching the console then.
Regards, /Pete
>From 026492e7039708f31991bd368775b98d584d88a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pete Batard <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:48 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] MinGW: do not use -mwindows as it is intended for GUI apps compilation * with -mwindows, stdout and stderr are redirected, which means that console samples do not output anything --- configure.ac | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 47e540c..b2fba59 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ int has_timeout=sizeof(test.timeout);], [Define 1 if you are compiling using MinGW]) AC_DEFINE([HAVE_WIN32_CDROM], [1], [Define 1 if you have MinGW CD-ROM support]) - LIBS="$LIBS -lwinmm -mwindows" + LIBS="$LIBS -lwinmm" LT_NO_UNDEFINED="-no-undefined" cd_drivers="${cd_drivers}, MinGW " ;; -- 1.7.8.msysgit.0
