CMake issue in Visual Studio Code (compiler/linker?)

[gaunt pollen]

for context, i have the main.cpp file, and a second GameManager.cpp file alongside a matching GameManager.h file. i have included the GameManager.h file in both main.cpp and GameManager.cpp. 🙂

[keen totem]

@gaunt pollen has reached level 3. GG!

[gaunt pollen]

Here's the output log error, which is why I'm sure it's a linker issue

i wouldn't even know where to start with manually linking files

I tried link.exe /INCLUDE main.cpp GameManager.cpp

or something similar to that. I also checked in environment variables and INCLUDE does not exist there inspite of the compiler obviously being installed (since i'm able to build single files)

i tried searching around online but a lot more people use GNU to compile, so the solutions always include "use g++", which i obviously don't have to use.

[gaunt pollen]

I added the CMake extension and manually created a makefile to attach it to. The project now builds after some tweaking and alterations to what was already there, but there's still huge glaring issues with CMake

The term 'make.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

mainly this issue, i'm not sure if cmake isn't configured correctly, or if i'm just doing everything wrong.

CMake issue in Visual Studio Code (compiler/linker?)

changing title to reflect the current issue

[last hazel]

What's your cmake?

[gaunt pollen]

can you explain a bit more what you mean by this? do you want me to send my cmake files, or show you the current configuration for it?

[gaunt pollen]

bumping this

also moved along a lot now. i have the correct SDL2 files on my computer finally (the repo is very unclear on which is the correct library)

i have the c_cpp_properties and CMakeLists files configured to include the SDL2 library, and from the developer terminal i have done both cmake . . and cmake --build ., but the build is broken apparently because it can't find my header files.

[gaunt pollen]

still unable to include SDL.h without it throwing an error. have checked c_cpp_properties, CMakeLists and tasks json files to ensure they're setup correctly. any ideas?

[viscid pilot]

Try #include <SDL2/SDL.h>

[charred shadow]

Can you show your CMakeLists.txt?

[gaunt pollen]

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10) project(GameProject) set(SDL2_DIR "C:/SDL2/cmake") //contains SDL2-config.cmake! list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${SDL2_DIR}) find_package(SDL2 REQUIRED) include_directories(${SDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS}) include_directories(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}) add_executable(GameProject main.cpp GameManager.cpp) target_link_libraries(GameProject ${SDL2_LIBRARIES})

I do! It's in the root folder, along with GameManager.cpp and main.cpp

[charred shadow]

Cmake needs to know that this file exists

Add the GameManager.h to your add_executable()

Or do something like target_include_directories(GameProject PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})

[gaunt pollen]

I wasn't aware you had to include headers there?

[gaunt pollen]

oh wait a second, including GameManager.h isn't my issue, that's already resolved

the issue is specifically with SDL.h not being included, despite having it included

and it looks like i get no errors until i build (from newly opening vscode through developer terminal), and then SDL.h is flagged as problematic

[gaunt pollen]

feels like i've exhausted my options

[last hazel]

Please don't long people for help

And please post the error you're getting if you want help

[gaunt pollen]

i've set this to resolved now, fixed it myself - my apologies