Beginner's Guide to Game Programming Ep1 Part 2-B Initializing SDL

The Beginner's Guide to Game Programming:
A Problem Solving Approach
Episode 1: Makin' Pickin' Sticks
Part 2-B: Initializing SDL

This is a written and video tutorial created to teach the basics of Allegro and SDL as well as game programming in general, while encouraging the newbie to code it out themselves.

This video covers initializing SDL as well as writing a basic program with a loop, and talks about double buffering.

You can get the written version and other things at my site:
http://www.moosader.com

Playlist link:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B9C8BC6F495BD17E

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[Jackson9797]

Confusing!

[LusikkaMage]

@Jackson9797 Hey there-- I'm going to be working on new beginner tutorials that are clearer and easier to follow. Because you find this tutorial confusing, you could be of immense help to me in ensuring that the new tutorial is NOT confusing.

Could you explain to me what you're having difficulty with?

[TompanX]

when I build it it just ses "pikcin - Debug" uses an invalid compiler. Probably the toolchain path within the compiler options is not setup correctly?! Skipping...

Nothing to be done." what should I do?

[LusikkaMage]

@TompanX What IDE are you using? What Operating System?

[TheSturdge]

The opening theme to this tutorial is now stuck in my head >.< apart from that, I love your tutorial series far too much.

[crazycrookes]

my window opens and then stays open for a few seconds with a white screen rather than black and will then close by itself a few seconds later, iv gone over the code and have the same thing word for word... any ideas?

[CaptainOlimar1]

I get a few errors...

`SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING' undeclared (first use this function),

SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory, and more.

14 errors. Help?

[axby]

@TompanX Download the SDL_image lib..

libsdl(DOT)org/projects/SDL_im­age/release/SDL_image-1.2.10. zip

Remove spaces.

[axby]

Btw, nice tutorials.. It's really user friendly :) (Y)

[axby]

3:30, or put it in the %homedir%/Windows/System32 and/or %homedir%/Windows/SysWOW64 folder

[krye97]

@3:18 Unless you have Linux :3