SDL on Linux

Hi. I was just wondering if anyone knew of a Linux SDL setup guide. I was just getting into SDL when I switched to Linux several weeks ago and all I can find are a bunch of Windows SDL setup guides.
Thanks.

Setup? By that do you mean how to install SDL? If that's the case, the download page is here:

http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

unconnected but..... hmmmm, your signature is from..... Mortal Kombat? I love that game...

basically just download either SDL 1.2 or... uh... whatever the other version is as source, ./configure, make, make install... you can also probably get it as an rpm on http://www.rpmfind.net


frozen bubble (http://www.frozen-bubble.org) is an open source game for example linux SDL code (I would assume it's basically the same as Windoze though).

HTH

B.

Originally posted by Megaman X unconnected but..... hmmmm, your signature is from..... Mortal Kombat? I love that game...

Heh, yes! That quote from the Mortal Kombat 3 start up screen has always stuck with me after playing that game for countless hours as a kid.

Anyways, back on topic. Hmm, just download and install, huh? I did that already but I was wondering. Coming from a Windows background and all... Is that it? I had to go through a 30 minute process to enable SDL in my projects on Windows. How to I go about that on Linux?

add the SDL libary path to /etc/ld.so.conf if it is not already and make sure when you compile your code the dir with the SDL header files are included with the -I flag (IE: gcc -I/usr/local/sdl/include -o mysdlapp mysdlapp.c)

Beyond that you're out of the scope of my knowledge for C/C++. I understand the perl bindings for SDL are very good.

B.

Doesn't it work by just adding #include <SDL.h> at the beginning of your code?

Heh, yep. Thanks. Who'd have thought Windows made things more complicated than need be? o_O

More or less . If you were choosing to code using DirectX it should be pretty simple. Even Visual Basic supports DirectX . But hey, you've done a great choice picking SDL . Portability always .