So I'm working on something like a combination of the NES game "Conflict," SimCity and an RTS, with procedurally generated details. I've some general code in place over a few different files to generate random maps, simulate (roughly) population dynamics and the like. I'm at the point wher...

Thanks for your reply, u/Kuan Hsu. Attempting to compile sdl2-hello.bas results in fbc -w all "sdl2-hello.bas" (in directory: /home/rmx256/FreeBASIC-1.05.0-linux-x86_64/examples/graphics/SDL) ld: skipping incompatible //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSDL2.so when searching for -lSDL2 ld: skip...

Thanks to those whom have replied. libncurses5-dev libgpm-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxpm-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libffi-dev are installed already. sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-net-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev resulted in libsdl2-dev ...

Hello, (ubuntu 18 on Lenovo x230, integrated graphics, plenty of ram etc, using Geany as the ide) I've been using Ubuntu for about eight years but only attempting to program on this platform recently. I am having no trouble doing things in a terminal only program, but attempting to use any of the gr...