[SDL] Re: Giving up SDL

[Douglas Jerome]

Leo . wrote:
> Ok, its not working, apparently, its not going to work.  I'm just gonna 
> give up.  I compile everytime with
> g++ -o Testing SDLProg.cpp `sdl-config --libs --cflags`
> and I get the same errors.  SDL config isn't working or something, and 
> yes, those are backticks.  my program is simple.
> 
>> #include <iostream.h>
>> #include <SDL.h>
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>  SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
>>  SDL_Quit();
>>  return;
>> }

Make main() return an int of zero, like this

	#include <SDL.h>
	int main (void)
	{
		SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
		SDL_Quit();
		return 0;
	}

If you have only libSDL.a, then try:

g++ -o Testing SDLProg.cpp `sdl-config --libs --cflags` -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
-lXt -lXaw

You may fail with other non-X11 library link errors, if you have
built libSDL.a against ALSA for instance.

You really want to have a complete installation of SDL, with its shared
objects.

If you have an RPM-based system, then learn how to find the packages
with something like 'rpm -qa' and remove any packages that you are
re-installing from source.

Learn how to hunt down the libraries that you need to link with; this
hunting is learned with experience: use nm to examine library files.

> so, you have any other librarys like SDL you would recommend?
> 
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