Hi, I’m a total beginner using C++ and Xcode13 on an M1 Mac.
I’ve managed to download SDL2 and got it working enough to open a window. Now I’m trying to download the SDL2_images-2.0.5 library (and I suppose I’ll want to download other libraries in the future). I’m trying to follow Lazy Foo’s tutorial here, but it’s for SDL2_images-2.0.2, which I guess is why it isn’t working. Either that or I just did any/all of the steps wrong (I feel like I might be trying to run before I can walk haha - I’ve only been coding in C++ and Xcode for a week).
In step 1, I don’t know what a Development Directory is so I just put it in the same frameworks folder that I put the basic SDL2 in.
In step 2, the screenshot has a “sources” folder, but I don’t have that and I don’t know why, so I just put it under the PROJECTNAME.
I got as far as the end of step 3, where it was supposed to be able to compile, but I still got errors that it couldn’t find the header file. I noticed that the screenshot had an SDL.h file, but I did not have that, so I googled it separately, and copy and pasted a txt file I found into a new header file, and stored that in the Include folder where it should have been.
I followed step 4 as best I could, but again I didn’t have a “sources” folder to put it in.
I have no idea what step 5 means.
The assets folder referred to in step 6 did not exist in the folder I downloaded from the SDL website.
No surprises, it couldn’t compile in step 7.
Apologies for being so clueless, and many thanks to anyone who can help me!
