Windows C++ SDL Eclipse error

Question

I was following the tutorial then when i followed it all the way though but when i went to run the code it gave me the cannot find -lsdlmain. I am using the minGW compiler and can use g++ in the command line from any directory. The full console out

23:32:34 **** Incremental Build of configuration Debug for project Game 1 ****
Info: Internal Builder is used for build
g++ -o "Game 1.exe" "src\\Game 1.o" -lmingw32 -lsdlmain -lsdl2 
b:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lsdlmain
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

23:32:35 Build Finished (took 272ms)

Can you post the compilation line? – Marco A. Oct 27 '14 at 19:00 — Marco A., Oct 27 '14 at 19:00
the what? sorry i dont know what that is. – Conor Groco Oct 27 '14 at 19:56 — Conor Groco, Oct 27 '14 at 19:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '14 at 09:51

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Add the path to the libraries:

g++ program.cpp -o executable -I /path/to/includes -L /path/to/libraries -l library1 -l library2

I'm guessing g++ doesn't know where to find your sdl libs because you have not added the path with -L

answered Oct 30 '14 at 09:51

Martin G

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The SDL libary is in the minGW folder. So SDL lib is in minGW lib folder and the SDL includes are in the minGW include folder – Conor Groco Oct 30 '14 at 11:24
so sdlmain.lib is in the same directory as mingw32.lib? Is that what you're saying? – Martin G Oct 30 '14 at 11:26
More like i merged the include and lib files of SDL and minGW. – Conor Groco Oct 30 '14 at 11:29

Windows C++ SDL Eclipse error

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