Графика с использованием SDL. Урок 1. Начало работы с SDL.

GFX with SDL. Lesson 1: Getting started with SDL

Welcome to the first tut in the "GFX with SDL" series.

Using SDL with Dev-C++

The first thing you need is to download some files that you will need. They are in the zip sdlDevCPP-1.2.4.zip (click the name to download). Extract the zip INSIDE your Dev-C++ directory so that the files from the folders lib and include (from the zip) get extracted to the folders lib and include in your Dev-C++ directory. On my computer the Dec-C++ folder is c:\Dev-C++. So after extracting the zip I would have the files libSDL.a, libSDL.la, libSDLmain.a and SDL.dll inside c:\Dev-C++\lib and lots of .h files inside c:\Dev-C++\include\SDL.

Now in Dev-C++ start a new console project. Now go to the project options dialog (found in the menu Project). The thing we need to set here is the field that says "Further object files or linker options:". Type in "-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL" (w/o the quotes) inside it. Now click OK.

One last thing: when you do printf(...) when having the SDL stuff in the project options in Dev-C++ the output of printf is written to a file called stdout.txt, not the screen.

And that's all the Dev-C++ related stuff.

Using SDL in Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

To use SDL in MSVC6, download the file SDL-devel-1.2.4-VC6.zip (if a newer version of sdl is released, look in www.libsdl.org for a newer version of this file). In that file you'll find 2 important folders (amongst the others) - include and lib. Extract all the contents from the lib folder in the zip into your MSVC6 lib folder. On my system it's: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib. Now create a new folder called SDL in your MSVC6 include folder and copy all the .h files from the include folder in the zip file into the newly created folder (on my system it would be C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include\SDL) AND into the include folder itself (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include on my system).

Now in Visual C++, create a new project. Choose 'WIN32 Application' and, when prompted, select 'an empty project'. Now you need to create some .cpp file for your project. Click file->new and select 'c++ source file'. Name it 'main.cpp'. Now go to the project settings (from the menu: project->settings). Click the 'LINK' tab and add 'sdl.lib sdlmain.lib' to the end of the long line of other listed .lib files (Object/library modules). One last thing: click the 'C/C++' tab in 'Project Settings'. From the drop-down menu choose 'Code Generation'. Now select 'Multithreaded DLL' from the 'Use run-time library' drop-down menu. And you're basically all set with MSVC6. Now just code :).