I realize this is a very ambiguous question, and I apologize that I cannot be more specific.

I started using SDL the other day, and wrote a program to load a .bmp image file and display it on the screen. I initialized everything in SDL first. I included the linked library and I put the image in the program directory. For some reason, whenever I run the program (which is compiled by MinGW), it displays error 0xc000007b. I am not an expert in Windows error messages, so I am asking here. Is this something I did?

Thank you so much for the help. I am using MinGW on 64-bit Windows. I believe I downloaded the 64-bit MinGW version. I still do have a problem, however. I found that I had the VC++ .dll of an older SDL version in System32 from a different application that I had awhile ago, and the new gcc dll was not in my programs directory. I fixed all that, and am now back to productivity. Thanks

What happened was I had already SDL.dll in System32, and it was an older version of SDL for Visual Studio. I fixed it by deleting that one, getting the new SDL.dll from the development libraries for MinGW, putting the new .dll in the program's directory, and putting libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll in the program directory. After that, it worked fine.