Elysian Shadows

dani93 wrote:I also had a SDL-program that caused a bluescreen when it was started outside the IDE.
I think I linked Mingw-DLLs (not libs ^^) with VS
Programming on Windows (especially with VS) is so complicated... just

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g++ -o executeable *.h *.cpp -Wall `sdl-config --cflags --libs` -lSDL_ttf -lSDL_net -lSDL_image

and everything works fine on other operating systems

...until you want to do more than just compile every .cpp file in the directory. What about when you want to handle only compiling files that changed? This is unrealistic for large projects.

Then you use a makefile, which--unless you're a masochist--is more hell than any IDE.

GyroVorbis wrote:Then you use a makefile, which--unless you're a masochist--is more hell than any IDE.

I like makefiles, but I don't know enough to create them. So I let qmake create them for me (when I'm using Qt, what I currently always do) and then I adjust the variable with the linker flags ^^