Comments on: Setting Up SDL with Visual C++ 2008 Express

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:59:54 +0000

Thanks a lot for your pdf file explaining how to setup SDL with visual c++.

I spent 1~2 hours roaming the internet trying to find out what I was doing wrong. Then I found and read your guide and I finally was able to compile

Thanks again!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:21:00 +0000

YAY! thanks for the tip

I was having trouble finding the C++ subfolder

By: Rengatame

Rengatame — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:51:00 +0000

Just a little Coda: I needed to copy the .dll files in the route C:\Windows\System32 for the project to link appropriately.

By: Rengatame

Rengatame — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Ooops. I`m sorry Lenny, you were right. The particular c/c++ setting only appears if a .cpp or a .c file is previously created.

Sorry again for my mistake.

By: Rengatame

Rengatame — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:23:00 +0000

@Lenny Hello. I noticed that the step 1 in the topic "Proyect Settings" of the tutorial it's particularly important, because if you select the Solution name (at the top of the tree) instead of the Project name (just the level below the solution name) you will come to a general-project-settings window. Only if you select the Project name, the Project settings window will open with all the options. It's not really neccesary to create any file previous to those steps.

Hope that little explanation will help.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:50:00 +0000

The C++ menu does not appear immediately for me either. But once I added a .cpp file to the project the menu magically appeared. So add a .cpp (or .c) file to the project!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:02:00 +0000

The C++ information is hidden beneath the Configuration Properties disclosure triangle. Click the disclosure triangle to expand the configuration properties and you should see the C/C++ section in the project properties window.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:28:00 +0000

Hi there,

Thanks for the tut and the original PDF for VC++ 2005 Express.

One question: In your PDF, in the section "Project Settings" for "Creating an SDL project", you say to go to:

2) Choose Project > Properties.
3) Select C++ then Code Generation.
4) Make sure the runtime library is either Multi-threaded DLL or Multi-threaded Debug DLL.

However, these steps appear to be slightly different in Visual Studio Enterprise 2008 (which is what I'm using).

I clicked on Project->Properties but could not get "C++ --> Code Generation" or some such menu. Can you kindly point me in the right direction? I configured the linker dependencies ok, though.

Thank you!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:20:00 +0000

Thank you for this.
I have tried to find a
decent tut for vc++ 2008

Thanks the gods you live.