I used Vim as my text editor of choice but I suspect you want to know how I compiled it all together. I used GCC to compile my code. I provided a make file with the source code that can be used to compile it all together.

Since you mentioned that you used Dev C++ I’ll take a guess and say that you are using Windows. If that is the case then you’ll need to do either one of two things to get it working.

You’ll need to setup SDL through Dev C++ go here to find out how, http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/windows/devcpp/index.php, you’ll also need to setup SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer and SDL_image which is explained in a later tutorial on that same site. Once you have SDL up and running then you’ll need to compile it through Dev C++. I’m not sure if it will automatically resolve the file dependencies or not. If it doesn’t have a look at my makefile to get an idea.

Alternatively you can install Cygwin or MinGW on your machine and then install SDL via that as detailed here http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/windows/mingw/index.php . You can then run my make file and presto it should compile.

Best of luck Chris

I also need to slightly touch up that code I am reincluding header files which I don’t need to do. Not sure why I did that. :\