Building an SDL program in Pelles C

Now that you are done building SDL and putting it into Pelles C, you are ready to make SDL programs in Pelles C. Whenever you want to make a program using SDL, the following is the procedure you will use:

• Create a Project
Create a new project (either a Win32 Console or Win32 Program).
• Include sdl.h
Create your sdl program (i.e. write your source code), making sure that you #include <sdl.h>
• Set Compiler Options
In Project->Project Options->Compiler, set the __cdecl calling convention from the drop down list. Also select the "Enable Microsoft extensions" option.
• Set Linker Options
In Project->Project Options->Linker (if this doesn't show up you haven't created a project properly yet), add "sdl.lib" and "sdlmain.lib" (just write the filenames with a space separating them) to the list of "Library and object files".

Now you can build and execute your own SDL programs.

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