library problems...

[thesanman112]

hello, I am trying to run the examples in current version of FB and keep getting errors that library's are missing, sdl, amongst others...
any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[MrSwiss]

The libraries are NOT part of the FB-distribution (only the .bi files, aka: the headers).
You'll have to download them, from their respective web-pages ...

[thesanman112]

yes I remember having to do that before, and now I cant seem to find the appropriate way to download sdl library support...
ive started by installing vb runtimes....any help is appreciated, thanks.

[srvaldez]

if you are on Windows you can get the binaries from https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
get the MinGW version and place the libs in the FB lib folder.
if you are on debian based linux then use apt-get e.g. sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

[fxm]

yes I remember having to do that before, and now I cant seem to find the appropriate way to download sdl library support...

See documentation at:
External Libraries Index

[thesanman112]

thanks for the help, I got it working, had to copy the lidrary file to the same directory as the source file. ah DUH!!!

[thesanman112]

thanks FXM, that's an excellent link to helpful resources, better then the help files!!!

[MrSwiss]

FYI, the wiki is the help ... (aka: Wiki is compiled, to the Manual.chm)!

[thesanman112]

Yes i got it all working now...another problem was i was trying the 64 bit version. I switchedback to 32bit and everything seems excellent now. Thanks guys.