getting SDL to work with Dev-Cpp

I just posted a thread about a libiberty.h file but nobody responded to it throughout the whole day, and only about 20 people looked at it... maybe this will draw more attention or more help.
how do you get SDL to work with Dev-Cpp? first of all, there are NO good tutorials on how to make it work with Dev. there's tutorials for visual studio, but I am using Dev. not visual studio. I've even downloaded the devpack from the dev updater. it installed but when i start a new SDL project and try to compile the default set of code, it can't find the libiberty.h file. I can't find the file on my hard drive as it is not there, and I can't even find information about it because googling libiberty.h is futile.
ANYONE? please and thank you

Are you linking with the SDL libraries? (-lSDL, and maybe -lSDLmain)

As for libiberty.h... I don't know, and as far as I can tell, I don't have the header either. I have libiberty.a, it seems to have come by default with MinGW. I've done projects with SDL before, but I've never liked with -liberty, only with the SDL libs.

Perhaps some examples of the error's you're receiving / the test code you're using will help?

In Project Options (Alt-P in Dev-C++ 4.0), you need to add a few libraries. I can't remember what they are, but it's like SDL.a and SDLlib.a or something. You also need to put SDL.dll in \windows\system (on my computer) or maybe \windows\system32.

actually, I finally got SDL working. the example code they start you off with doesn't work right off the bat, because of that libiberty.h file (and they say

Code:

#include "SDL.h"

but it should be

Code:

#include <SDL\SDL.h>

I think libiberty.h MAY have something to do with using visual studio. but anyway I just started messing around with some beginner tutorials and started off by only including SDL.h. everything is working just dandy now, and i guess libiberty.h isn't necessary. AND i got this example code to work, but I had to take out the libiberty.h file obviously, and all the error checking... lol. pretty interesting

and if you want the example code I was trying:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libiberty.h>
#include "SDL.h"

/* The screen surface */
SDL_Surface *screen = NULL;
/* This function draws to the screen; replace this with your own code! */
static void
draw ()
{
    static int direction = 0;
    static int value = 0;
    static int which = 0;
    SDL_Rect rect;
    Uint32 color;
/* Create a black background */
    color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, 0, 0, 0);
    SDL_FillRect (screen, NULL, color);
/* Determine which color the layer should have */
    if (direction == 0)
    {
        value += 2;
        if (value >= 256)
        {
            value = 255;
            direction = 1;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        value -= 2;
        if (value <= 5)
        {
            value = 0;
            direction = 0;
            which++;
            if (which == 5)
                which = 0;
        }
    }
/* Draw a layer with variable color */
    switch (which)
    {
      case 0:
          color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, value, 0, 0);
          break;
      case 1:
          color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, 0, value, 0);
          break;
      case 2:
          color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, 0, 0, value);
          break;
      case 3:
          color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, value, value, value);
          break;
      case 4:
          color = SDL_MapRGB (screen->format, value, 0, value);
          break;
    }
    rect.w = screen->w / 2;
    rect.h = screen->h / 2;
    rect.x = (screen->w / 2) - (rect.w / 2);
    rect.y = (screen->h / 2) - (rect.h / 2);
    SDL_FillRect (screen, &rect, color);
/* Make sure everything is displayed on screen */
    SDL_Flip (screen);
/* Don't run too fast */
    SDL_Delay (1);
}

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *msg;
    int done;
/* Initialize SDL */
    if (SDL_Init (SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0)
    {
        asprintf (&msg, "Couldn't initialize SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError ());
        MessageBox (0, msg, "Error", MB_ICONHAND);
        free (msg);
        exit (1);
    }
    atexit (SDL_Quit);
/* Set 640x480 16-bits video mode */
    screen = SDL_SetVideoMode (640, 480, 16, SDL_SWSURFACE | SDL_DOUBLEBUF);
    if (screen == NULL)
    {
        asprintf (&msg, "Couldn't set 640x480x16 video mode: %s\n",
          SDL_GetError ());
        MessageBox (0, msg, "Error", MB_ICONHAND);
        free (msg);
        exit (2);
    }
    SDL_WM_SetCaption ("SDL MultiMedia Application", NULL);
    done = 0;
    while (!done)
    {
        SDL_Event event;

        /* Check for events */
        while (SDL_PollEvent (&event))
        {
            switch (event.type)
            {
            case SDL_KEYDOWN:
                break;
            case SDL_QUIT:
                done = 1;
                break;
            default:
                break;
            }
        }
    /* Draw to screen */
        draw ();
    }
    return 0;
}

anyway, thanks everyone!

Good luck with that. SDL is lots of fun.

thanks everyone. i'll try to have some fun with SDL, though most of my time will be spent working on my text adventure until I complete that... I'm almost there!