Intro: Hello, i'm charlando and i'm new here but i've been arround a lot. I am having trouble with the SDL lib and i can't figure it out. I'm using Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2 and i was trying to install SDL. I followed the tutorial here: http://lazyfooproductions.com/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/windows/devcpp/index.php but i got an error. The contents of the compiler log looks like this: Compiler: Default compiler Building Makefile: "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win" Executing make... make.exe -f "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win" all make.exe: Circular Main <- Main.o dependency dropped. g++.exe -c Main -o Main.o -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/include" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/backward" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/mingw32" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include" g++.exe: Main: linker input file unused because linking not done g++.exe Main.o -o "SDL_Tutorial.exe" -L"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib" -mwindows -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL g++.exe: Main.o: No such file or directory make.exe: *** [SDL_Tutorial.exe] Error 1 Execution terminated edit: accidently posted log twice. If anyone can help, please do. If your gonna call me stupid... >.> [Edited by - charlando on August 18, 2006 9:36:11 AM]

I did what you said, i downloaded SDL from the updates window, but i get the same error it seems.

Quote:Original post by PumpkinPieman
No clue what this means
make.exe: Circular Main <- Main.o dependency dropped.

I've never tried working with SDL but you could also try for now only using -lSDL as a flag.

well, main.cpp is the name of the file with the code in it.

I changed "-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL" into "-lSDL" and i got:

Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win"
Executing make...
make.exe -f "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win" all
make.exe: Circular Main <- Main.o dependency dropped.

g++.exe -c Main -o Main.o -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/include" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/backward" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/mingw32" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include"

g++.exe: Main: linker input file unused because linking not done

g++.exe Main.o -o "SDL_Tutorial.exe" -L"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib" -mwindows -lSDL

g++.exe: Main.o: No such file or directory

make.exe: *** [SDL_Tutorial.exe] Error 1

Execution terminated

to my inexperienced eyes it looks kinda the same...

Quote:Original post by PumpkinPieman
try trouble shooting by commenting out the SDL methods

sorry, i don't understand... I'm not very good with this debugging :p

Try this. In Project properties under the parameters tab, make sure you have

-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL

in the linker tab

And in the Compiler tab put this:

-Dmain=SDL_main

That is what I would put when I used Dev with SDL, and I could use it just fine

Hope that helps.

Chad.

i added that, but the new error is:

Quote:Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win"
Executing make...
make.exe -f "C:\Projects\SDLtut\Makefile.win" all
make.exe: Circular Main <- Main.o dependency dropped.

g++.exe -c Main -o Main.o -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/include" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/backward" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2/mingw32" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/3.4.2" -I"C:/Dev-Cpp/include"

g++.exe: Main: linker input file unused because linking not done

g++.exe Main.o -o "SDL_Tutorial.exe" -L"C:/Dev-Cpp/lib" -mwindows -lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL

g++.exe: Main.o: No such file or directory

make.exe: *** [SDL_Tutorial.exe] Error 1

Execution terminated

:/

mmm. I am not sure if this will work, but I did have a problem like that one time with Dev, and what I did was rebuild all. I believe the hotkey for rebuild all is crtl+F11. Like I said, I doubt that will work but I did have a problem similar to yours and I just did rebuild all and it worked.


Now, after you install SDL via from a devpak, there should be a SDL Template Project made in the MultiMedia section where you create a New Project. If you click that for the new project do you still get that error?


Chad