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I'm trying to get off the ground with SDL. SDL by itself works fine, I got the basic Hello World setup to work. However, trying to use SDL_image has caused me a ton of headaches. My current code (below) gives me the error 'Img_Load' was not declared in this scope' at line 17.

  • My linker settings in Code::Blocks look like this: "-lmingw32 -lSDLmain -lSDL -lSDL_image"
  • Search directories are properly set up

  • The required DLLs are in the folder with the EXE.

    include iostream
include fstream
include "SDL/SDL.h"
include "SDL_image.h"

using namespace std;
const int SCREEN_WIDTH = 600;
const int SCREEN_HEIGHT = 600;

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

    SDL_Surface* hello = NULL;
    SDL_Surface* screen = NULL;

    screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT, 32, SDL_SWSURFACE);
    hello = Img_Load("img\\hello world.png");

    if(!hello) //check that the load worked
        cout<<"error";

    SDL_BlitSurface(hello, NULL, screen, NULL); //draw image
    SDL_Flip(screen);

    SDL_Delay(2000);

    SDL_FreeSurface(hello); //closing down
    SDL_Quit();

return 0;
}

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

user1586641
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'IMG_Load' confirm case in your source file with the library reference when you reach errors like this.

dans3itz
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  • Img_Load is the correct case according to the documentation. As well, it gives me a different error if I change the case. The scope error implies the function is defined but just not accessible. – user1586641 Aug 09 '12 at 12:07
  • Oh, not sure then. Hate to add more suggestions without effect, but is SDL_image.a being linked? – dans3itz Aug 09 '12 at 18:34
  • As far as I can tell, SDL_image.lib is being linked (it didn't have a .a file, just a .lib). I've added the -lSDL_image flag to the linker settings, the search directories should see it, and Code::Blocks even gives me code completion suggestions for SDL_image functions. Is there some kind of brute force way to bring stuff into scope in C++? – user1586641 Aug 09 '12 at 22:26