Comments on: SDL Tutorial Basics

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:07:32 +0000

Can you explain what you did to fix the problem, that might help other people in the future.

By: Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:01:57 +0000

oops nevermind i didnt read the next part :p

By: Daniel Lavin

Daniel Lavin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:02 +0000

Ah, nevermind! I was able to fix the problem. Thanks anyway

By: Daniel Lavin

Daniel Lavin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:11:26 +0000

Hey. Both of the zip and rar files from the tutorial links are broken. Also, I just finished doing this tutorial, and I get some weird errors. I get “error: syntax error before..” and then it says its wrong.. here:

class CApp {

before CApp and {…

also before every : after private, and an error in syntax again in
void CApp::OnEvent(SDL_Event* Event) {

Any ideas?

By: phoff

phoff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:19 +0000

I found the answer to my own question. On Linux you can use “sdl-config –cflags” to find the path for the includes and “sdl-config –libs” to find the path for the libraries. Just paste the relevant info into the appropriate place and you should be good to go.

By: phoff

phoff — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:21:38 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu Karmic, and I’m getting “undefined reference” errors for all of the SDL_* functions. It seems to be finding the SDL types though, so I’m assuming it’s finding SDL.h (though I can’t seem to figure out where it is). Any ideas?

By: jungletek

jungletek — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:11:12 +0000

Nevermind… I must have typoed or forgotten something, because I cut’n'paste from your example after originally typing it, and it sorted itself out.

By: jungletek

jungletek — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:57:32 +0000

Hey, thanks for the tutorial. However, trying to compile leads to the following error:

In member function `void CApp::OnEvent(SDL_Event*)’
error: ISO C++ forbids comparison between pointer and integer

Ideas? Using your suggested codeblocks and mingw setup.

By: Tim Jones

Tim Jones — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:30:51 +0000

Jayakumar,

It’s pretty much exactly the same, except you don’t need mingw32.

RetardedProgrammer,
Thanks!

By: RetardedProgrammer

RetardedProgrammer — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:15:24 +0000

WOW I must say thank you so much!! Our lecturer has gone through all of it allready, but he never explained the structure. When I first saw how your code was split up in these five classes I was confused, but after going through the tutorial I understood the whole thing much better, because now I not only learned what the functions do but also what our purpose is when implementing them. Only by explaining how games are setup (the five functions) and that games are “gigantic loops”, you made me understand what I couldn’t understand for a whole year
Thank you very much!!