[Norfenstein]

This might be a newbie-ish problem, but I haven't had any success getting SDL to work with D. I got the compiler working fine, everything in the default locations (on Windows XP) and unzipped the SDL file on DedicateD to c:\d\sdl. I thought the following would work to compile the included test files (after changing string and c.stdio to std.string and std.c.stdio in the import section):

C:\d\sdl\test>dmd testbitmap.d picture.d -g -d -I..\

But I got a string of errors like this:

testbitmap.obj(testbitmap)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _SDL_CreateRGBSurface

Related to all the SDL functions used in the program, followed by:

--- errorlevel 10

Adding the switch "-L..\" got me the following error above the rest:

OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : NOI..\

And using "-c" got me no errors but an unworking exe, so I assume the problem is me not knowing how to properly use/link lib files. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jcc7]

[aldacron]

Take a look at my project 'Derelict' here on dsource. It was created to make it easier to use SDL and others, and you don't need to worry about SDL.lib. The dll is loaded explicitly, so you can catch an exception and fail gracefully if it is missing from the user's machine.

Derelict has an up-to-date (and working) SDL binding (along with OpenGL, GLU and an in-progress Python binding). From the Derelict download section, you can pickup Derelict-0.1, but if all you want is SDL you might just want to pull it directly from the svn repository (I recommend that anyway, as there have been some changes since I packaged the download).

Be sure to read the readme. If you are on Windows you won't need to do anything special, but if you are using Linux let me know and I'll tell you what needs to be done.

[Norfenstein]

Thank you jcc7! Passing in the lib as you described made everything work properly. I was a little thrown off since the D compiler page at Digital Mars mentions a bunch of file types you can pass to the compiler but for some reason excludes .lib's, so I thought maybe they had to be passed to the linker with -L. Thankfully it's all much simpler.

Glad to say I also got OpenGL working with the files at D - Porting. The ones at DedicateD are too far out of date and wouldn't compile properly.

aldacron: I had briefly looked over Derelict while trying to solve this problem and decided I didn't want another layer to understand just yet. Looking briefly at it again, it seems like it could be valuable even after getting SDL and OpenGL to work, so I'll give it a go and see what it can do.

[aldacron]