SDL 1.2.12 app not compiling

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by FunLogic July 25, 2007 08:35 AM

4 comments, last by Lazy Foo 16 years, 8 months ago

154

Author

July 25, 2007 08:35 AM

I get the following error when I try to compile a skeleton SDL app under visual studio: Unable to start program 'program name' Apparently the application configuration is incorrect, but I've set up loads of SDL projects before - has something changed between .11 and .12 releases of SDL?

mindrot

253

July 25, 2007 10:45 AM

dont have any code so im not sure
but do you have all the DLLs for the libraries included locally?
its a practice i like to follow regardless of if they are installed in the system directory

dlls i have locally in my skeleton apps are
jpeg.dll
libpng12.dll
libtiff.dll
SDL_image.dll
zlib1.dll
sdl.dll
sdl_mixer.dll

the error is kind of cryptic so i dont know if its unable to compile
or it just compiles then errors
i know i can get programs to compile in devC++ but then they error immediately
when ever i IMG_Load() or similar to a file name that doesnt exist...

dont know if this is at all helpful
post they code - if its a true skeleton it shouldnt be that long
also post the linker options youve set up

FunLogic

154

Author

July 25, 2007 10:51 AM

Compiles fine, doesn't execute. All DLLs are local, I link every necessary library and include every header. There's really not any point me showing code because it fails even if the only code is an empty main function. The error is complaining about the projects configuration file.

Oh, I get LNK4098 warning: defaultlib 'msvcrt.lib' conflicts with use of other libs.

Lazy Foo

1,113

July 26, 2007 04:44 PM

A fix was posted on the SDL mailing list:

Quote:Building an SDL application with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

1. Install Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/downloads/default.aspx
** Make sure you install the Service Pack 1 update! **

2. Install and configure the Platform SDK
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/
If you get errors later about windows.h you'll need to review this step.

3. Download http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.12-VC8.zip

4. Unpack in your desired installation directory.

5. Open Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition

6. Add the include and lib directories from the SDL installation directory
to Visual C++, by going to:
Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> VC++ Directories
You'll want to add the SDL include directory to the Include files and
the SDL lib directory to the Library files.

7. Create a new project using the Win32 Console Application template.
In the additional options, check the "Empty Project" checkbox.

8. Right click on the Source Files group and Add New Item -> Code -> C++ file.

9. Add the following text to the file:

#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int done = 0;
SDL_Event event;

if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) < 0 ) {
fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
return 1;
}

if ( !SDL_SetVideoMode(640, 480, 0, 0) ) {
fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't set video mode: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
SDL_Quit();
return 2;
}

while ( !done ) {
while ( SDL_PollEvent(&event) > 0 ) {
if ( event.type == SDL_QUIT ||
event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN ||
event.type == SDL_MOUSEBUTTONDOWN ) {
done = 1;
}
}
SDL_Delay(10);
}

SDL_Quit();
return 0;
}

10. Edit Project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> C/C++ ->
Code Generation -> Runtime Library and set it to Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)

11. Edit Project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker ->
System -> Subsystem and set it to Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS)

12. Edit Project -> Properties -> Configuration Properties -> Linker ->
Input -> Additional Dependencies and add SDLmain.lib and SDL.lib

13. Build the solution.

14. Copy SDL.dll from the SDL lib directory to the directory that contains
the executable that you just built, e.g.
C:\Users\Sam Lantinga\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\SDLTest\debug

15. Run the application, and click the mouse in the SDL window to quit!