SDL First try, super basic program. Fails to compile

[ezra8s]

Hello,

Just for little fun I am trying to compile the first simple program using SDL libs.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <SDL.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

	if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
		exit(1);
	}

	return 0;
}

As you can see it's pretty simple.

I have a precompiled libsdl1.2-dev installed which leaves SDL headers under /usr/include/SDL

and I also downloaded SDL from the origianl webpage to try, but no avail.

I am compiling using this:
g++ `sdl-config --cflags --libs` sdl-example.cpp -o sdl-example

and I get:
/tmp/ccVhU6dF.o: In function `main':
sdl-example.cpp:(.text+0x11): undefined reference to `SDL_Init'
sdl-example.cpp:(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `SDL_GetError'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Changing the include to "SDL.h" or "SDL/SDL.h" makes no difference.

I also tried the same with gcc and got the same result.

sdl-config --cflags --libs gives this:
-I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT
-L/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu -lSDL

Anyone knows what I am doing wrong?

[ezra8s]

I reply myself, it seems the order in which you call the libs matters, so compiling this way solved it:

g++ sdl-example.cpp -o sdl-example `sdl-config --cflags --libs`