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    Question SDL issues

    I am trying to use SDL to make a movie easter egg. The movie code is

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <string>
    #include "SDL.h"
    
    using namespace std;
    int i;
    
    int main(int argc, char* args[]) {
         cout << "Welcome to the movie easter egg.";
         i = 1;
         if (i == 1) {
         SDL_Surface* frame1 = NULL;
        SDL_Surface* screen = NULL;
        if((SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING)==-1)) { 
        cout << "Error initiating movie."; }
        screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( 640, 480, 64, SDL_HWSURFACE );
        frame1 = SDL_LoadBMP( "C:\\Users\\User\\Desktop\\Frames\\Frame1.bmp" );
         SDL_BlitSurface( frame1, NULL, screen, NULL );
        SDL_Flip( screen );
        SDL_Delay(2000);
        SDL_FreeSurface( frame1 );
        SDL_Quit();
        return 0;
    }
    }
    I am running Dev-C++ on windows 7 and I followed Lazy-foo's tutorial. I get a linker error in the form of

    [linker error] undefined reference to 'SDL_Init'

    and I get linker errors to everything sdl in the code also. I also get a linker error to winmain@16. This isn't a project but a source file. I am not going to create a project unless it is absolutely necessary. Please help.

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    Re: SDL issues

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    Re: SDL issues

    Linker errors usually mean that you haven't told the linker that you are using certain libraries. You need to specifiy to the linker what .lib files SDL require.
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