Anyone use SDL?

[jw6XoG1T]

yeah thats the form i started out with. Plus even it wasn't right it would send a header file error

[Computergeek01]

See my last "EDIT:" it would explain why the project isn't seeing your file and would mean we were giving you the wrong advice because as usual VC++ is the exception to the norm.

[jw6XoG1T]

but i did put the bitmap in the projects file. It's the file with the exe. right?

[Computergeek01]

Not necessarily, I actually can't remember enough about the file structure for VC++ to be much help. Try Ctrl+F "vcproj" in C:\Users\Danielle\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\crap

[jw6XoG1T]

nah i put it in the right folder.....still not working though :( this is really irritating....cant even do a simple beginner SDL program

[Computergeek01]

Grr... Now I'm really annoyed. I just copy pasted and ran your code on my system with no trouble.

Could you post the contents of your MakeFile? I want to see what files it's trying to include for SDL.

[jw6XoG1T]

im sorry but whats the make file? lol

[Computergeek01]

No problem, I just looked it up and Visual Studio doesn't use them sorry my bad. I think this one has me stumped...

Would you consider converting? http://www.codeblocks.org/
It's really not a bad IDE, it may take awhile to get used to not having your hand held but it'll be worth it in the end.

[jw6XoG1T]

yeah ill consider maybe switching over. But i really wanna know whats causing this problem though you know? lol just for the learning experience

[Computergeek01]

I understand absolutly, it should be working but it isn't. You're not getting any errors, which is as much lazyfoo's fault as the compiler IMO, and there is no indication that you did anything wrong. If this happed to me I wouldn't be able to sleep. But I hope you're more rational then I am.

[jw6XoG1T]

actually ive been thinking about it since yesterday and even all of today during school lol i dont like it when something simple like this doesnt work.


so what things do i need to download for code blocks?

[Computergeek01]

The IDE it self: http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads

MingW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

Different version of SDL: http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32.tar.gz

That should get you up and running. Sorry we couldn't figure this one out for ya.

[jw6XoG1T]

lol no problem. And really thank you so much for stayin with me this whole time and trying to help me figure this out ;)

by the way...i looked up a youtube video on installing code blocks and it showed the only thing i need to install is mingw....is that true?

[Computergeek01]

Only if you have Code::Blocks already and you aren't using SDL. Otherwise you can't use what's not there.

[jw6XoG1T]

alright lol and by the way....i think ill just try learning SFML instead of SDL...i looked it up and it says it's better than SDL

[Computergeek01]

I agree SFML is the way to go and it even uses OpenGL so integrating 3D animation and such in your next step is that much easier.

EDIT: No problem, I like to help.