SDL 2 Tutorial 1b [SETUP] Windows and Visual Studio Setup

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[SonarSystemsCoUk]

Welcome to this SDL tutorial.

If you have any questions feel free to post them on our free education platform sonarlearning.co.uk

[damianrivas]

0:18 Install Visual Studio
0:53 Download SDL2
2:55 Create VS project
3:52 Project properties
5:45 Copy the dll to your project's directory
6:13 Start coding

[damianrivas]

There is an additional step for 64-bit (x64) setup:
If you click on the "Configuration Manager" button in the properties window and switch the "Active Solution Platform" and "Platform" to x64, then you should be good to go.

[benjaminnysetvold]

THANK YOU SO This was the first time I actually got it to work.

[chadflores]

I tried this on Codeblocks and I wasted hours trying to set it up for it to ultimately fail.

I tried using Visual Studio, and I got it first try. I think I know which one's better.

Thanks for making this great video.

[IntuneVitaDoctrina]

Thanks, been searching for this information and couldn't find it, your video was spot on, huge thanks

[KingOfClubsFilms]

Very helpful video. Been tearing my hair out for 3 days trying to gwt SDL to work. Thank you so much!!! :-D

[dirgenovember]

Just a little tip if you run into a c1010 error go to project -> properties -> c/c++ -> precompiled headers -> precompile header click on it until is says Not Using Precompiled Headers. was getting this error until I turned off. works perfect now. thanks Sonar Systems for this awesome tutorial. also another tip for those of you who can't find win32 console application on the vs2017 use Windows Console Application instead then just follow every step word for word and it should work great. good luck all!

[jlc]

Thanks for this. I've been trying to figure this out for hours!

[matelaszlototh]

Thanks man! I cloudn't have figured out on my own, you helped me a lot!

[flamboulder]

This was excellent - absolute life-saver!

[thektulu]

Finally it worked!!! Thank you so much for this tutorial!!!

[heyman]

Will I have to do this on my every new project?

[jolierouge]

Pretty awesome tutorial man. Pretty awesome indeed.

[jonedwards]

Hi, thank you for this video, I have managed to get SDL2 working just fine on Visual Studio 2017 Community and Windows 10 but ran into a complete roadblock with Visual Studio 2019 Community and Windows 10 have you managed to get this working on VS 2019 at all, or are there some extra steps involved, sorry for the belated question.

[alejandro]

thank you very much, i could configure sdl on visual studio 17 very quickly.

[Данила-дч]

I am from Ukraine, but I did not find the information in my native language. Thank you very much for your great help!

[vinniciusrosa]

I will try it again. I did not find the "lib" directory, maybe I have to download it correctly again. Thank you.

[BrainDecrease]

Very helpful, thanks... But for those getting an annoying build issue that reads something like "unresolved external symbol SDL_main", just add "#undef main" somewhere under your #includes. It's some weird bug in the SDL.h

[VndNvwYvvSvv]

Added main.ccp. Still no C/++ in the configurations tree (4:40 ish). Wat do?