Setting up SDL in codeblocks

• First of all you've to download SDL headers and binaries. The download is available at http://www.mediafire.com/?ce02ii51rvoxezm
• After downloading, extract the zip file.
• Copy the contents of include folder and open ...\CodeBlocks\MinGW\include folder where your codeblocks has been installed ( such as C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\include). Create a new folder named SDL and paste the copied contents inside it.
• Copy the contents of bin folder and paste it inside C:\Windows\System32.
• Repeat the above step for lib folder. Paste the contents inside ...\CodeBlocks\MinGW\lib.
• Start up Code:Blocks and go to the Compiler and Debugger settings.
• Go to the Compiler tab under Search Directories. Click add:
• then add in the include directory where you before copied the the include folder contents (say C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\include\SDL).
• Then under the linker tab add in the lib directory ( say C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\MinGW\lib).
• Then after under linker settings, in other linker options paste

-lmingw32
-lSDLmain
-lSDL
-lSDL_image
-lSDL_ttf
-lSDL_mixer


Now you are ready to work on SDL with image, sound and fonts.