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stray scarab Mar 24, 2025, 1:47 AM

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Hello, I am a complete beginner to C coming from python and a bit of java, and am having trouble finding any information on this topic. I downloaded the sdl3 zip from github which has an install.md file but all it says is this:

# Using this package

This package contains SDL3 built for x64 Windows.

To use this package, simply replace an existing 64-bit SDL3.dll with the one included here.

# Development packages

If you're looking for packages with headers and libraries, you can download one of these:
-  SDL3-devel-3.2.8-VC.zip, for development using Visual Studio
-  SDL3-devel-3.2.8-mingw.zip, for development using mingw-w64```
I am not sure what to do from here as I have no experience with any of this stuff. Looking for help on this.

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stray scarab Mar 24, 2025, 1:47 AM

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I may need to use cmake it looks like?

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I dont even have cmake downloaded or anything so i am completely stuck lol

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is it more popular to use visual studio rather than vscode for c and c++?

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i would prefer vscode though

stray scarab Mar 24, 2025, 2:16 AM

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so im following the visual studio tutorial now from sdl wiki

pale mortar Mar 24, 2025, 5:01 AM

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I have a VSC tutorial here, if you need it: https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/cpp-tutorials

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It kinda covers using libraries as well. For SDL specifically you had to download SDL3-devel-3.2.8-mingw.zip (unless you want to compile SDL itself from source, which is tedious)

stray scarab Mar 24, 2025, 11:23 AM

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pale mortar I have a VSC tutorial here, if you need it: https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/cpp-...

I would assume for this it’s also the same for c then?

pale mortar Mar 24, 2025, 11:29 AM

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stray scarab I would assume for this it’s also the same for c then?

Yeah, you need to make some small changes for C, but it's simple

stray scarab Mar 25, 2025, 12:16 AM

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pale mortar Yeah, you need to make some small changes for C, but it's simple

so i have done that, but i was wondering how I can get text completion on the SDL code. Every bit of code I type in SDL pretty much just shows up as normal white text rather than a certain color. This may also be just my C in general, i am not completely sure.
It looks like that image.

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btw if you wanted to know this is the speed it was

pale mortar Mar 25, 2025, 4:48 AM

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Probably works as intended

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I'm not sure if you're using clangd right now or not, if not try it

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Maybe it'll use slightly different colors

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