https://github.com/spapas/winsdl

Compile and run an SDL2 program with Windows command line build tools (cl.exe) without using the Visual Studio
https://github.com/spapas/winsdl

c cl sdl sdl2 windows

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Compile and run an SDL2 program with Windows command line build tools (cl.exe) without using the Visual Studio

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/spapas/winsdl
• Owner: spapas
• Created: 2021-06-20T20:34:13.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-06-22T05:17:17.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-30T21:16:21.738Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: c, cl, sdl, sdl2, windows
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 9.77 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# winsdl

To compile and run an SDL2 program with Windows command line build tools (cl.exe) without using the Visual Studio: 

1. Download & install Build Tools for Visual Studio 2019 (should also work with 2017 version): https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019 - no need for Visual Studio

1. Download & install the Windows SDK: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/

1. Download & unzip the SDL Development Libraries for Visual Studio: https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

1. Fix the include and libpath paths on makeme.bat depending on where you installed SDL

1. Fix the shell32.lib path: this is included in the Windows SDK usually in a folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.18362.0\um\x86\shell32.lib

1. Run vcvarsall.bat x86 (i.e C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat or C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat)

1. Run makeme.bat; it should run without errors and generate a main.exe file

1. Copy over SDL2.dll from the SDL folder to where the main.exe file is created

1. Run main.exe; it should display a window