SDL Error Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 “_SDL_main”

Question

I am using C++ with the SDL Cocoa and Foundation framework on my mac os x. I get the following error

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  \"_SDL_main\",         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem, even though my main signature was correct. I Found the answer here: SDL in XCode 4.3.2 SDLMain.o undefined symbols

Turned out the problem was that I added SDLMain.m and SDLMain.h (according to a suggestion on the libSDL website about OS X frameworks) to an existing SDL project which messed up with main. Bottom line is that you don't need those files just because you are using Cocoa -- SDL's own test apps don't use it either and run just fine on OS X.