i try your way but i still have a problem when include sdl2_image and sdl2_ttf . It is"sdl2_image not found". Could you help me with that please?

@@ucanhbui4039 I used different -L -I than in the video and it works for me : INCLUDE_PATH = -I include/SDL2 -I include/SDL2_image LIBRARY_PATH = -L lib/SDL2 -L lib/SDL2_image LINKER_FLAGS = -lSDL2 -lSDL2_image The reason why is that -lSDL2 does not give me the symbols i need so i add the -L for sdl2_image AND I precise every include path beacause in the original source code in SDL2_image.h, the include is not SDL2/SDL.h but SDL.h Here are my tree for the symbolic links : ├── include │ ├── SDL2 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/sdl2/2.0.22/include/SDL2 │ └── SDL2_image -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/sdl2_image/2.0.5/include/SDL2 ├── lib │ ├── SDL2 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/sdl2/2.0.22/lib │ ├── SDL2_image -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/sdl2_image/2.0.5/lib Much thanks to this guy video it's super clean and clear did not found something as this as good on the net, KEEP GOING WELL PLAYED

@@kilianlecalvez9473 I had exactly the same thing as yours, it still gives cannot find "ld: library not found for -lSDL2", darn it

@@kilianlecalvez9473 thank you so much! this pretty much fixed all the issues i had. i also had to change the include code to look like "#include ".

Cool! I'm happy to hearing that! Doing setups is tedious and sometimes we get weird errors. I'm glad this helped you. I'm adding some other tutorials about the basics of SDL2 and over time I'll evolve to tutorials on how to create some small games and eventually more complex games :) If you have some time, check those out as well. Happy coding!

could you please tell me what version of mac os you have, because for some reason this solution does not apply to mac os 14

Hey Toffy, thanks a lot for leaving this feedback. I have been super busy at my full time job and didn’t have much time to create new videos, although I still want to explorer more SDL and create some small games with it. I’m happy that this tutorial was useful to you. I hope you come back later to watch new videos when I post them. Cheers!

Thanks for the feedback 👍 Yeah, the audio is not the best. I’ll improve it for the next videos 🙌

You're welcome!

@@independentpixels actually. I find sdl so good. I will keep going with this. This is so fun

@@quantondev Yes, indeed. It's really nice to work with SDL2 even though it's an old API. I didn't have time yet, but I'm planning to share new tutorials on how to work with SDL2 APIs for things like reading files, loading and playing sounds, rendering elements on the screen based on tilemaps, etc. Also, I'm planning to create a series where we will be able to recreate Pacman using SDL2. That will be also fun :) Have fun, and if you create something that you want to share, feel free to upload it to youtube and share it here in the comments. Stay creative, and have fun.

@@independentpixels haha thanks. I am working on dialog bubbles to start with. I would like to share it after it finishes. It is not that easy to create an entity object to relate each other for now. I am trying to find a good way to deal with it. Looking for other projects as well. I will be back in couple of days :)

Thanks for this feedback :) I really appreciate it. Happy coding!

Glad I could help!

Thanks :) Yes, SDL2 is not super beginner friendly. The Raylib seems to be a great alternative indeed. I'll try to create another version of this setup using Raylib instead of SDL2.

@@independentpixels Great news! I'll be waiting, thanks again.

So I copied all the files into their directories, yet the same error still appears (ld: library 'sdl2' not found). Any idea what I'm doing wrong? My Tree: . ├── Makefile ├── build │ └── debug ├── include │ ├── SDL2 (copied directly from Cellar) │ └── SDL2_image (copied directly from Cellar) ├── lib │ └── lib (SDL2_image library copied directly from Cellar) └── src └── main.cpp I renamed "SDL2_image" in the include folder from its previous name "SDL2", as two folders with the same name cannot exist together. I don't think this would impact anything, as the header inside does not reference the folder's name. Edit: I somehow did it. The video showed that the lib folder needed to be taken from SLD2_image. Instead, I replaced it with the lib folder from SLD2, and it worked.

Hey, sorry for the late reply. In this case, I'd double check the setup of the library in your project. First: Check in the /lib folder of the project that an SDL2_image directory exists and that you can expand its content. Second: If the first check pass, then check the /include directory, and verify the the SDL2_image folder exists and that you can expand its content, which should include the SDL2_image.h file only. If one of the checks above fail, I'd suggest you to re-do the setup of this library as explained in the video. Third: Assuming you're using the make command to build the project, make sure that in the Makefile's LINKER_FLAGS you have both the -lsdl2 -lsdl2_image libraries required. The output of the make command should be something like this: g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -O0 -g -lsdl2 -lsdl2_image -Iinclude -Llib src/main.cpp -o build/debug/play One last tip: Sometimes the installation path for the SDL2 libraries could be different in your machine. The links for the /lib folder on the sample project were created assuming that the SDL2 libraries are physically installed on your machine on the "/urs/local/Cellar" directory. If that's not the case, then you'll have to adjust the links. In order to check where the libraries are installed, you can use the command: "brew info sdl2_image" I hope that helps :) Happy coding!

Hey thanks for investing your time to watch the video :) Sure, I like your suggestion. I can definitely do some videos explaining what those files are, etc. Thanks for your suggestion.

@@independentpixels +1

hi! could you please help with solving this problem? i would be very thankful and happy if you could)

I fixed my own problem. For anyone else having this problem, just double check your launch.json and tasks.json files if they are written exactly as the video described! I had a slight bracket error.

Hey akshat, Could you please share what's the output of `brew info sdl2`? It will tell us where you have SDL2 installed on your machine. The path indicated, should match the one in the links. Could you also share please the output of (from the project directory): $ la lib/ $ la include/ With this info I might be able to help you :)

Hey, I'm not entirely sure about how to achieve that as I'm writing the programs in C++. But, I think that first you'll have to rewrite some parts that are using c++ specific features to use C features. Then, compiling will be similar to what we are doing now, except that you'll invoke a different compiler "gcc" instead of "g++" and for the flags you can remove the "-std=c++11" flag. I think that should do. I can't provider more details as I'm not an expert in C. I hope this helped anyways. Thanks.

Unfortunately I don't have a M1 to ensure the project will work on both processors. I'm starting to think that maybe having the libraries added to the project directly would be a better option that would fit for all cases. 🤔

The flag is '-O0'

Hey Johan, what's exactly the problem you're having? Could you please tell me more details about what's not working and in case an error message is presented to you, what does it says?

I do get a launch.json file, but not with all the tags that are in your video

Hi, it seems that you don't have a main() method defined in your main.cpp file. Make sure your main.cpp file has a main() method like this: github.com/jcfausto/sdl2-starter/blob/36f49bdd8b46ae4e3d49a6ef16dd75b94037f81a/src/main.cpp#L4 You can copy the entire content of the main.cpp file from the link above just to be sure everything is alright. I believe that this should fix the problem :) From there, you can then start adding more code to your program/game. Happy coding!

Command `make` only works when there is a Makefile in the particular path you're in. Check if you really have a `Makefile`.

Okay so I got it to work BUT the literal only thing I did was in the "launch.json" - my version was on the bottom so I moved it on the top like yours....

@@ohlorduser Awesome! Great to hear that you fixed the issue 👍Happy coding!

I found the issue in Makefile, after we complete the line, there should be no spaces before we move to the next line.

Nice! I'm happy that you found the solution for the issue :) Happy coding!

wherever you are, thank you for this post. was losing my mind over this error and it ended up being a trailing space like you said. 🙏

Hey, I'm glad you liked it :) The theme name is Cyberpunk and you can find it on this link here marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=max-SS.cyberpunk

also looking at the symlinking stuff you've done, how come the command was ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/sdl2/2.24.1/includeSDL2 ./include/SDL2 and not ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/sdl2/2.24.1/include/SDL2 ./include/SDL2 ?

Hey dev_web, I'm glad you liked it :) SDL is a library that was created to facilitates the access to operating system resources such as audio, keyboard, video, joysticks, gamepads, and graphic resources either through OpenGL or Direct3D. It simplifies a lot the code necessary to perform some action, like creating a window, which would be different if you're creating it on Windows, Linux, or Mac. In order to create 3D graphics, my current understanding is that you'll have to use OpenGL sooner or later. You can definitely you SDL and OpenGL in combination, that won't be a problem. In the SDL's official tutorials page there are some examples about how to use SDL with OpenGL: wiki.libsdl.org/Tutorials Also, I'd recommend having a look at other libraries as well like GLFW or GLEW, they're as also very good libraries and I think I'd choose one of these if I wanted to create 3D games or so. Happy learning!

@@independentpixels ok cool thank you, it makes a lot more sense now. So in theory, if I install the glew and glfw libraries and link them to my include folder on the build I should be able to use them? I’m assuming my .json files will have to be a little different as well?

@@dev_web3903 I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the same process would work. I was reading briefly the GLFW docs and it seems that once you download and unzip the library all you have to do is to link to the folder containing the headers and the libs. So, in theory, the same approach I used on this tutorial should work. If that does not work, then and alternative is to copy the folders containing the headers files directly into to your project. That's also a common practice. :)

@@independentpixels Ok awesome I'll give it a try, thank you for your help it is much appreciated.

Hey Everything Engineer, I'm glad you fixed it. Thanks for sharing the solution here. It might be helpful to other colleagues as well. 👍

Could you include SDL2 on mac m1? I had an error: "cannot open source file "SDL2/SDL.h"

Hi Max, what I usually recommend is to google search the issue you're having. Usually an answer will pop up in the search results. I can try to help if you share what specific error you're facing.

@@independentpixels I got many errors when I used the command ? Do you have a email or something to chat ? That's will be better

Hey :) Could it be that you need to add the linker flag -lsdl2_image to your makefile? The command to compile should look like this: g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -O0 -g -lsdl2 -lsdl2_image -Iinclude -Llib src/main.cpp src/renderwindow.cpp -o build/debug/play Also, you should make sure the the symbolic links are correc in the "/Lib" folder of the project. Sometimes the location where the libraries are installed on your machine may differ. Some other folks had similar issues. Have a look at some of the older comments down below, you might find your answer there. I hope that helps. Happy coding :)

same problem, did you figure it out?

same here, have you guys figured it out? i would be very happy and thankful @@jonahreisner8044