I am very much enjoying using SDL in my work and am finding it to be just as
simple as the name promises. Except for one thing: compile errors related
to “main” (or “mainwin”). They’ve already tripped up my attempt to get SDL
working with the Borland commandline tools (MSVC++ works fine), but this time
I can’t dodge the problem.
I need to compile a SDL-enhanced project on Linux. I know almost nothing
about Linux, but have gotten a development environment up and running. Here’s
the situation:
distro: PCLinuxOS (great for people venturing out from Windows)
compiler: GCC, run in Konsole
addition to makefile:
SDL_CFLAGS := $(shell sdl-config --cflags)
SDL_LDFLAGS := $(shell sdl-config --libs)
error message:
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-mandriva-linux-gnu/4.1.1/…/…/…/crt1.o: In function
_start': (.text+0x18): undefined reference tomain’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
My first guess with this error message was that I hadn’t installed SDL
correctly. So, I uninstalled the rpms and tried again. Here’s the Konsole
log:
[root at localhost RPMs]# rpm -ivh SDL-1.2.11-1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.0 from install of SDL-1.2.11-1
conflicts with file from package libSDL1.2-1.2.11-4pclos2007
(I hope this means that base SDL is already installed. I'm nervous
about un-installing “libSDL1.2-1.2.11-4pclos2007”, because I suspect that
other PCLinuxOS stuff depends on it, and I could quickly trash my OS if I
don’t ask this forum for help first.)
[root at localhost RPMs]# rpm -ivh SDL-devel-1.2.11-1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:SDL-devel ########################################### [100%]
[root at localhost RPMs]# rpm -ivh SDL_ttf-2.0.8-1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:SDL_ttf ########################################### [100%]
[root at localhost RPMs]# rpm -ivh SDL_ttf-devel-2.0.8-1.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:SDL_ttf-devel ########################################### [100%]
Ladies and gents, what am I doing wrong? If you need more information, please
let me know! 