Oct 16, 2020 · I want to make a game using SDL2, but I'm unable to compile and/or run my code, please help! SDL2 is notoriously hard to set up, and it's often the first library aspiring game …

I am using Windows 7, Code::Blocks and MinGW. I have little to no experience when it comes to compiling/building anything, especially when Code::Blocks doesn't use makefiles. I …

Feb 8, 2015 · 38 This blog post shows how you can do it: Using SDL2 with CMake On Linux you can use a recent CMake (e.g. version 3.7) and using SDL2 works out of the box.

May 25, 2014 · Using SDL2_image with CMake Basically you need a FindSDL2.cmake and FindSDL2_image.cmake module. They can be based of the ones that work for SDL 1.2 which …

Jun 28, 2021 · My goal is to build a C++ app with SDL2 that can run on both Linux and Windows which may not have SDL2 installed. (I know that there are lot of posts about it, I'll come later). …

Jul 30, 2025 · On the flipside I've found tutorials which describe how to set up SDL2 on windows even using visual studio however using g++ instead of gcc which I imagen has different …

If you're using a 64bit version of Windows, you'll want to put the dll in C:\Windows\SysWOW64. The problem with this method is if you have multiple SDL apps that use different versions of …

Feb 5, 2023 · Since you are using msys2 you can install SDL2 using pacman and that would put SDL2 in the system location removing the need to specify the include or link directories. You …

Mar 5, 2022 · Actually SDL2 in SDL2/SDL.h is a folder.It is a folder that keeps SDL.h in the directory the compiler looks #include directives in.Change that include folder name to SDL2.

Feb 5, 2022 · Short answer is libraries you use are incompatible, as SDL2_ttf and SDL2_image are built against newer version of SDL2 than you have in your archive (linked in question). Get …