Trying to get SDL to work

Not sure how much of this is relevant but hey...

I'm running Win2000, and I'm using Dev-c++ with the Mingw32 compiler.

I've copied the libraries from the SDL installation into their respective folders, as described HERE
I've added the Lib and Include directories inside my Dev-c++ dir to the Directories tab.
I've added the "-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL" to the parameters tab.

But when I try to compile the example code (wichever) Dev-c++ tells me that I need to define a "host application" and after that it won't compile but simply states "nothing to be done for "all""

I'm really annoyed that I can't find what's wrong, and as such I turn to yee forumers.

What could be the matter??

Post the code you're trying to compile. You may need to use a Windows project (I have to on my older Dev-C++).

Surely, here's the code, as ripped from the link provided in my first post.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <SDL/SDL.h>

void Slock(SDL_Surface *screen)
{
  if ( SDL_MUSTLOCK(screen) )
  {
        if ( SDL_LockSurface(screen) < 0 )
        {
          return;
        }
  }
}

void Sulock(SDL_Surface *screen)
{
  if ( SDL_MUSTLOCK(screen) )
  {
        SDL_UnlockSurface(screen);
  }
}

void DrawPixel(SDL_Surface *screen, int x, int y,
                                                                    Uint8 R, Uint8 G, Uint8 B)
{
  Uint32 color = SDL_MapRGB(screen->format, R, G, B);
  switch (screen->format->BytesPerPixel)
  {
        case 1: // Assuming 8-bpp
          {
                Uint8 *bufp;
                bufp = (Uint8 *)screen->pixels + y*screen->pitch + x;
                *bufp = color;
          }
          break;
        case 2: // Probably 15-bpp or 16-bpp
          {
                Uint16 *bufp;
                bufp = (Uint16 *)screen->pixels + y*screen->pitch/2 + x;
                *bufp = color;
          }
          break;
        case 3: // Slow 24-bpp mode, usually not used
          {
                Uint8 *bufp;
                bufp = (Uint8 *)screen->pixels + y*screen->pitch + x * 3;
                if(SDL_BYTEORDER == SDL_LIL_ENDIAN)
                {
                  bufp[0] = color;
                  bufp[1] = color >> 8;
                  bufp[2] = color >> 16;
                } else {
                  bufp[2] = color;
                  bufp[1] = color >> 8;
                  bufp[0] = color >> 16;
                }
          }
          break;
        case 4: // Probably 32-bpp
          {
                Uint32 *bufp;
                bufp = (Uint32 *)screen->pixels + y*screen->pitch/4 + x;
                *bufp = color;
          }
          break;
  }
}

void DrawScene(SDL_Surface *screen)
{
  Slock(screen);
  for(int x=0;x<640;x++)
  {
        for(int y=0;y<480;y++)
        {
          DrawPixel(screen, x,y,y/2,y/2,x/3);
        }
  }
  Sulock(screen);
  SDL_Flip(screen);
}

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

  if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_AUDIO|SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 )
  {
        printf("Unable to init SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        exit(1);
  }
  atexit(SDL_Quit);

  SDL_Surface *screen;
  screen=SDL_SetVideoMode(640,480,32,SDL_HWSURFACE|SDL_DOUBLEBUF);
  if ( screen == NULL )
  {
        printf("Unable to set 640x480 video: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
        exit(1);
  }
  int done=0;

  while(done == 0)
  {
        SDL_Event event;

        while ( SDL_PollEvent(&event) )
        {
          if ( event.type == SDL_QUIT )  {  done = 1;  }

          if ( event.type == SDL_KEYDOWN )
          {
                if ( event.key.keysym.sym == SDLK_ESCAPE ) { done = 1; }
          }
        }

        DrawScene(screen);
  }

  return 0;
}

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Though I suspect it's not the code that is wrong, because I get the same error with different example programs...

Maybe irrelevant, but here's the Debug log:

Code:

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Compiler: Default compiler
Building Makefile: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Code and such\Tutorials\Tstprj\Makefile.win"
Executing  make...
mingw32-make -f "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Code and such\Tutorials\Tstprj\Makefile.win" all
mingw32-make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Execution terminated

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*bump*

I'd just like to get started on making games.

If anyone can help, please do, and if the question is stupid, please tell me.
I'm just here to learn :)