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Setting up D with SDL2
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Hello and welcome. In this video we are going to set up a D and SDL2 project for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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We are going to use DUB and bindbc-sdl package. Make sure you have SDL2 libraries installed on your system.
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If you are on windows, all you need are the dlls and put them into a libs folder in your project.
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Let's begin. Initialize a new project and add the bindbc-sdl package. Then we need to modify the dub.json
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configuration file. In the 'versions' section, specify the SDL libraries you plan to use. I am going to add
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SDL2_2020 version as the minimal required version, SDL_image, ttf, mixer and net.
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We are done with the dub config file. Let's move on to the source file.
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I will create a new function to dynamically load the SDL libraries. The algorithm is simple. We are going to
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load the library, check for the error code and output an error message.
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Before we continue, we need to specify the dll look up path if we compile on windows... That's it.
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Now, let's load the SDL libraries... If we fail to load the library, then we output an error message, otherwise,
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we have an old version the library installed on our system. So, we need to tell the user to install a newer
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version of the library.
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I will do the same for SDL_image, ttf, mixer and net...
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Alright, at this point we can already use the SDL functionality. So, I will create a new function to initialize
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the SDL libraries... It should load the SDL libraries automatically, check for errors and return.
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That's it! Now, we can initialize the libraries and start using the SDL functionality.
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... coding ...
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That is it! It should now compile on all three platforms. I have tested it myself and it works fine.
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If you have any questions, write a comment below. Have a nice day and enjoy!
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