Need help to setup SDL2 in visual studio code.

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I just started SDL2 in visual studio code, I am new to this so don’t know much. But this is the error showing when I use mingw32-make command

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Hi! Judging by the error you most likely mismatched the architectures of the libraries.

You can see in your terminal that mingw32-make defaults to x86_64-w64-mingw32. So make sure that you took the libraries with the same architecture from the devel archive:
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Let me know if it works out!

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Yes that worked, Thank you

But now there is a new problem

Program ‘main.exe’ failed to run: The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.At line:1 char:1

  • ./main

At line:1 char:1

  • ./main
  •   + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [], ApplicationFailedException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed

This is the error code that’s showing after fixing the libraries

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Since you are on Windows, executable should end in .exe. So you should update your compile command to have -o main.exe.

Since you’re running from a terminal, the next issue you’re likely to encounter is a silent one. You may have noticed that the mingw libraries have a bin folder with SDL2.dll in it. You will need that DLL next to the .exe to run it. (It only shows up as a popup when you double click the executable from the file explorer)

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It is still showing the same error.

I made the content in the Makefile
from this
all:
g++ -I src/include -L src/lib -o main.exe main -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2

to this
all:
g++ -I src/include -L src/lib -o main.exe main.cpp -lmingw32 -lSDL2main -lSDL2

And copied the SDL2.dll into the VSCODE_GAME_1 folder.