I have been working on a chess game (very very simple since its my first game) on linux using SDL and SDL_image, and i wanted to port it to windows. so i installed DevC++ 4.9.9.2, and it worked great. so i went to DevPack's and downloaded all the libraries needed. this is how the package manager looked after all the libraries installed. so i made a new SDL project, and example code worked fine. so i tried to put my chess game code (which worked fine when compiling in linux) along with SDL_image. Code and it gives this following list of errors: 8 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL.h:34, from SDLchess.c In file included from C:/Dev-Cpp/include/SDL/SDL.h:34,from SDLchess.c 69 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 69 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 69 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h [Warning] data definition has no type or storage class 71 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 71 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h [Warning] data definition has no type or storage class 72 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 72 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h [Warning] data definition has no type or storage class 80 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 81 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 82 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 83 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 84 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 85 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 86 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 87 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 88 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token 89 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\SDL\SDL_image.h syntax error before '*' token and it goes on and on for another 50 lines like this. what is the problam ? (and if someone wants me to try a simple example code and tell him if i get any errors, then i will do it if he asks) Any reply will be welcome.

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so this was the SDL.h file when i included the SDL_image.h in it:

#include "SDL_main.h"
#include "SDL_image.h"
#include "SDL_types.h"
#include "SDL_getenv.h"
#include "SDL_error.h"
#include "SDL_rwops.h"
#include "SDL_timer.h"
#include "SDL_audio.h"
#include "SDL_cdrom.h"
#include "SDL_joystick.h"
#include "SDL_events.h"
#include "SDL_video.h"
#include "SDL_byteorder.h"
#include "SDL_version.h"

so ive deleted that line and now it looks just like before.

so now i added #include <SDL/SDL_image.h> to my updated code (after removing it from SDL.h) and tried to compile, and this is the compiler output:

[Linker error] undefined reference to `IMG_Load'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `IMG_Load'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `IMG_Load'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `IMG_Load'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `IMG_Load'
more undefined references to `IMG_Load' follow
ld returned 1 exit status
C:\Documents and Settings\dean\My Documents\SDLchess\Makefile.win [Build Error] [SDLchess.exe] Error 1

okay, so i added the -lSDL_Image into the linker and it gives me the following error:

yes i already added th proper main function.
and what do you mean by "incompatible", that i should try diffrent versions of SDL with diffrent versions of SDL_image ?

oh ya, you have to include all the jpeg png and tiff dll with the project.
after i put all the dll's with the project it gave me the error i put 4 posts ago.