OMG!!! I just had another common sense moment

[K.I.L.E.R]

Well I tried to get my SDL program working.
I've moved off Java and GLUT and am now using SDL(cross-platform is VERY important to me).

Anyway I had linker errors and I fixed them by using Google and going to the SDL site's FAQ and reading about it.
After I found my answer in the FAQ I went in and re-arranged my library linking in the manner suggested in the FAQ.

I didn't think it would matter in which way I link, but it does for obvious reasons. I wish there was a thing called smart linking. I think VIsual Studio .NET does it because I didn't have this problem when doing it through VS 7.

My program works perfectly now.
Hooray for common sense?

 

[London Geezer]

Well I tried to get my SDL program working.
I've moved off Java and GLUT and am now using SDL(cross-platform is VERY important to me).

Anyway I had linker errors and I fixed them by using Google and going to the SDL site's FAQ and reading about it.
After I found my answer in the FAQ I went in and re-arranged my library linking in the manner suggested in the FAQ.

I didn't think it would matter in which way I link, but it does for obvious reasons. I wish there was a thing called smart linking. I think VIsual Studio .NET does it because I didn't have this problem when doing it through VS 7.

My program works perfectly now.
Hooray for common sense?

Did you use Google Braille?

 

[_xxx_]

You actually had any common sense moments before?

 

[nutball]

I wish there was a thing called smart linking.

I'd rather it *be* smart linking rather than just being called it.

It doesn't matter under VMS (or at least it didn't last I used it which was ... a decade ago), and I think I read that you can persuade the linker to make multiple passes through the libraries to resolve symbols that it should already know about (under Linux that is).

 

[Frank]

Or, use a Makefile. After all, that's what they're for.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

Or, use a Makefile. After all, that's what they're for.

I didn't think of that. Nice!

 

[MuFu]

I wouldn't jump to crazy, fantastical conclusions. Maybe you were just temporarily possessed by the spirit of a deceased programmer?

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

John Carmack?

I wouldn't jump to crazy, fantastical conclusions. Maybe you were just temporarily possessed by the spirit of a deceased programmer?

 

[MuFu]

Well, some might say he's dead but I think that's a little harsh.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I love you Mufu.
If you weren't a girl then I would marry you.

 

[MuFu]

lol. Small mercies eh?