SDL 2.0 won't initialize. Error: “Failed to connect to the Mir Server”

Question

I am running Ubuntu 14.04, and using Eclipse CDT.

In my program, I am trying to initialize SDL and if it doesn\'t initialize then output the error, but SDL_GetError(

Answer 1

I had this error when I was using gcc to compile. When I used g++ to compile it fixes the issue. The Lazy Foo tutorial also recommends you to use g++ to compile.

If you are having this problem you can try using g++ to compile and see if this resolves the issue.