Elysian Shadows

I redid the first, and still got the error. But I don't know what it wants me to do for the second tutorial.

Any Luck setting it up.

Nope. Still working on it.

Edit-------
Ok so I followed the tutorials and I think got everything right, but to make sure I copied the source from a lazyfools tut number 2, and got compile errors...A syntax error, undeclared. This is a serious pain in the ass.

What error exactly did you get.

jtst1 wrote:This is a serious pain in the ass.

check if it is in the right folder, i know that when you install SDL it makes a folder with SDL specific stuff, do NOT put the SDL_image files in that folder, put then just in lib, and bin etc. ( NOT the subfolders that SDL created )

good luck mon ami

jtst1 wrote:Anyone know how to install sdl for codeblocks? I tried a couple tutorials, but none seemed to work.

I do :D

1. download the SDL_Development libraries and plonk them into a folder you know where they are.
2. at the code::blocks start page go to Settings->compiler and debugger
3. go to the linker Settings tab and then click the Add button
4. find the directory you installed SDL and add libSDL_main.a and libSDL.DLL.a
5. when you're back at the linker settings section, on the right panel, enter -lSDL and -lSDLmain
6. go to the search directories tab
7. go to the compiler tab within the that tab and click add
8. search for the directory called include/SDL and add that
9. go to the linker tab within the search directories tab and click add
10. search for the /lib folder where you copied your SDL files to
11. BAM! you're ready to go, this is a global setup, so all you need to do now is set up a project and #include SDL.h each time you want to use it

I hope this was clear enough.


EDIT: the same principle goes for all SDL libraries, you just search for different directories and add different lib files

EDIT 1.1: also, when you need to add those -lSDL things for extension libraries, just remember that they all follow a standard format, so libSDL_image would be -lSDL_image and mixer is -lSDL_mixer

if you follow those instructions, I don't think you'll have any problems (or at least setup related problems), if you keep doing it, it becomes second nature in the end!

-1sdL_image

That might just be a typo, but the number "1" in that should be a lowercase letter "L" which stands for "library".

-lSDL_image

Maybe he is forgetting to put the proper dll files in whatever directory code::blocks requires.

programmerinprogress wrote:

jtst1 wrote:Anyone know how to install sdl for codeblocks? I tried a couple tutorials, but none seemed to work.

I do :D

1. download the SDL_Development libraries and plonk them into a folder you know where they are.
2. at the code::blocks start page go to Settings->compiler and debugger
3. go to the linker Settings tab and then click the Add button
4. find the directory you installed SDL and add libSDL_main.a and libSDL.DLL.a
5. when you're back at the linker settings section, on the right panel, enter -lSDL and -lSDLmain
6. go to the search directories tab
7. go to the compiler tab within the that tab and click add
8. search for the directory called include/SDL and add that
9. go to the linker tab within the search directories tab and click add
10. search for the /lib folder where you copied your SDL files to
11. BAM! you're ready to go, this is a global setup, so all you need to do now is set up a project and #include SDL.h each time you want to use it

I hope this was clear enough.


EDIT: the same principle goes for all SDL libraries, you just search for different directories and add different lib files

EDIT 1.1: also, when you need to add those -lSDL things for extension libraries, just remember that they all follow a standard format, so libSDL_image would be -lSDL_image and mixer is -lSDL_mixer

if you follow those instructions, I don't think you'll have any problems (or at least setup related problems), if you keep doing it, it becomes second nature in the end!

Thanks man I did everything, I think correctly. I got no compile errors, only this

"Linking console executable: bin\Debug\blaaah.exe
mingw32-g++.exe: and: No such file or directory"

grrr.

Did u put the DLL in its proper folder?

I believe so. I don't have to put anything in the folder where my project is do i?

Its the one with all the source files and the project file is located. You should have SDL.dll in it.

I put the dll in my project file didn't work.

Hmm are you linked correctly by adding -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL to the linker box. If so did you give the directory to the lib files and if you did that I would try reinstalling SDL.

Alright. Thanks for the help everyone :D