SDL compilation problems

Error occurs as shown below:

Code:

$bcc32.exe -b -c -tW -DWIN32 sdltest.c -lSDL -lSDLmain
Borland C++ 5.6.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2002 Borland
sdltest.c:
Warning W8057 sdltest.c 13: Parameter 'argc' is never used in function SDL_main
Warning W8057 sdltest.c 13: Parameter 'argv' is never used in function SDL_main

$ilink32.exe -aa -Tpe -c sdltest.obj SDL.lib import32.lib c0w32.obj cw32.lib
Turbo Incremental Link 5.62 Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Borland
Error: Unresolved external 'WinMain' referenced from C:\PROGRAM FILES\BORLAND\CBUILDER6\LIB\C0W32.OBJ

Here's sdltest.c:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <SDL.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO | SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        return 1;
    }
    SDL_Quit();

	return 0;
}

I installed SDL and then the Borland libraries from Borland.zip that came with and then put their paths in bcc32.cfg and ilink32.cfg so that they pointed to the include dir and borland library dir respectively. The SDL faq and documentation doesn't have this problem listed and the parameters on the commandline should be correct.

Well your code looks like a console application, yet you're trying to link it as a GUI application. It expected winmain - that's in the linker message, but all you have is main.

Code:

#include <SDL.h>

That should be installed in

Code:

#include <SDL/SDL.h>

shouldn't it?

Yes but you're supposed to do that according to the FAQ.

Q: I get "Undefined reference to 'SDL_main'" ...
A: Make sure that you are declaring main() as:

#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

You should be using main() instead of WinMain() even though you are creating a Windows application, because SDL provides a version of WinMain() which performs some SDL initialization before calling your main code. If for some reason you need to use WinMain(), take a look at the SDL source code in src/main/win32/SDL_main.c to see what kind of initialization you need to do in your WinMain() function so that SDL works properly.

Whoops. I put mine in "SDL/SDL.h".

And this

You should be using main() instead of WinMain() even though you are creating a Windows application, because SDL provides a version of WinMain() which performs some SDL initialization before calling your main code.

seems to disprove Salem's idea. Maybe you aren't linking to all the required libraries? I seem to remember that there're three of them.

dwk: I guess it's usually that way but I haven't put the SDL dir in my include directory, I just added SDL\include to the include path.

[edit]I have linked all the libraries like the FAQ says.

Link the.obj files together using ILINK32 with the following options:
-aa (Create windows app, sounds redundant, but...)
-Tpe (Target = windows exe)
-c (case sensitive linking, may be the default...)
and the following additional files (order is important)

* sdl.lib (created in step 1)
* import32.lib
* c0w32.obj
* cw32.lib

I needed libsdl.a and sdlmain.a, I think. For Dev-C++.

I added "SDLmain.lib" after "SDL.lib" in the command line for ilink32 and now it all works. I just hope it's not an improper thing to do that will turn out to screw things up later.