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thanks guys i will keep this in mind as i study more c++ on my free time thanks I'll only post if im absolutely stuck but i think this experience will help me alot.

ok i did exactly what you said it worked thanks guys. When you

type this in their it finds the sdl libraries that it was complaining about?

g++ -I/usr/include/SDL -lSDL -lSDL_image ...

Im using G++ a Linux compiler and runing it through the console

and i just copied this code line for line. how would i go about telling the compiler about the library.

I thought i did that...

lesson01.cpp:(.text+0x27): undefined reference to `SDL_Init'
lesson01.cpp:(.text+0x4b): undefined reference to `SDL_SetVideoMode'
lesson01.cpp:(.text+0x62): undefined reference to `SDL_RWFromFile'...

thanks guys. by indent you mean add this right
<<" lines of code ";<<
or do you mean i should dobule space my code or do both?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;
int main( void )
{
srand(time(0)); // seed random number genrator
string name; // used to...