[Solved] Installing SDL

[zodiac976]

I went and downloaded SDL and followed their tutorial that came
with it and it is not working, so I am wondering if anyone here
knows a site or can explain it themselves how to install SDL?

[programmerinprogress]

http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/index.php this will explain better than I ever could

In future, how about you tell us what is exactly wrong with your installation, are you getting errors? are your programs crashing? did you just stick SDL in a folder and expect it to just work? these kinds of things help, they help us to help you

Good luck, and if you have any trouble, post your problems here until the situation is [solved]

[zodiac976]

I will keep that in mind and thanks for the link, the tutorial was
very well done and everything works like a charm.

[dandymcgee]

Good luck, and if you have any trouble, post your problems here until the situation is [solved]

If you could rename your first post's title to "[solved] Installing SDL", it would be helpful for others have similar problems later.

[davidthefat]

LOL Well Im a lazy bastard that had the same problem, looking for other similar libs, so I just used the Dev Pak thing with DevC++ and it had a list of SDL and related libs so it installs it by it self... Try that

[zodiac976]

Good luck, and if you have any trouble, post your problems here until the situation is [solved]

If you could rename your first post's title to "[solved] Installing SDL", it would be helpful for others have similar problems later.

I have no idea how to do that, sorry.

[dandymcgee]

If you could rename your first post's title to "[solved] Installing SDL", it would be helpful for others have similar problems later.

I have no idea how to do that, sorry.

Just click the "Edit" button on the top right of your first post and change "Subject" to the new title.

[zodiac976]

Thanks .

[dandymcgee]

Thanks .

No problem. It just helps people who have similar issues in the future to know this topic might contain a solution.

[programmerinprogress]

LOL Well Im a lazy bastard that had the same problem, looking for other similar libs, so I just used the Dev Pak thing with DevC++ and it had a list of SDL and related libs so it installs it by it self... Try that

REAL men install libraries manually

just remember to do everything globally, so you don't have to do it every time you set a project up

[dandymcgee]

just remember to do everything globally, so you don't have to do it every time you set a project up

The only downside to that is if you distribute your project to someone who has different global settings it may not compile. On the other hand if you do everything per project it should compile with no hassle on someone else's machine. (At least this has been my experience with Code::Blocks).

[programmerinprogress]

just remember to do everything globally, so you don't have to do it every time you set a project up

The only downside to that is if you distribute your project to someone who has different global settings it may not compile. On the other hand if you do everything per project it should compile with no hassle on someone else's machine. (At least this has been my experience with Code::Blocks).

I didn't think of that, I guess you would probably add your settings to the project if you intended to do that, but even then, this may not be the case, people install their libraries in their own directories, so technically even that measure assumes the directory of the libraries on the target machine, so really it's always down to the competence of the programmer who's using the project to change the settings.

[dandymcgee]

I didn't think of that, I guess you would probably add your settings to the project if you intended to do that, but even then, this may not be the case, people install their libraries in their own directories, so technically even that measure assumes the directory of the libraries on the target machine, so really it's always down to the competence of the programmer who's using the project to change the settings.

Well in Code::Blocks you set the paths for your libraries in your settings, but you still have to put -lSDL -lSDL_Image etc. in the project's linker options. If you could put those params in the global linker settings the project would compile fine for you, but maybe not others. Yet if you put those params in the project's linker settings directly, the project should compile fine for anyone with SDL installed regardless of what directory it's in (this will be resolved by their compiler's settings).