[SDL] Re: Can't get SDL to work with VC++ Express 2005 Beta

[Kevin Watters]

James Arthur <teamonkey <at> gmail.com> writes:

> I've tried getting SDL to work with the new beta of VC++ Express 2005
> (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/) but it simply won't run. It
> seems to die with an assert error, even when no SDL-specific functions
> are called (I assume that has something to do with the main() function
> being essentially overloaded by SDL). See the forum posts above for a
> screenshot of the error box.

Just wanted to remind the list that this is still a problem :( ...the latest
Visual Studio _doesn't_ create working SDL programs. The obscure assert that
exits a program on start indicated in this thread seems to point to the new
Runtime with VC8...anyone have any fixes for this yet?