Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Setting SDL in codeblocks with mingw-windows only


 fist donloawd and extract file SDL-1.2.13
1.Open folder SDL-1.2.13
2.Copy all the files from folder 'include' 
3.Go to C:\Program files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\include
4.Create a new folder 'SDL' inside folder 'include' and paste the files there.
5.Similarly copy all files from folder 'lib' and paste them to
 C:\Program files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\lib
6.Copy all files from 'bin' to C:\Program files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin and also
paste those files to C:\Windows\System32.
 (If during execution of SDL program it says 
'*(something).dll' is missing then paste those files of 'bin' to C:\Windows too.)



Now open CodeBlocks
Goto Settings--> Compiler and Debugger
Under the 'Linker Settings' Tab type or copy paste the following in 
'Other linker options:' box

-lmingw32
-lSDLmain
-lSDL
-lSDL_ttf
-lSDL_image
-lSDL_mixer