Linker Errors from SDL2 in my project

Question

I used CMake and Code::Blocks to build SDL2 from source, and attempted to link my own project source to the following static libraries:

libSDL2.a
libSDL2main.a
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Answer 1

If you link with static SDL, you need to manually pull all libraries it uses:

imagehlp dinput8 dxguid dxerr8 user32 gdi32 winmm imm32 ole32
oleaut32 shell32 version uuid

Or just use dynamic SDL2.

Answer 2

SDL2main goes before SDL2. Linking order matters.

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Also, I'm sorry, but I must say that this

I obtained libSDL2 and libSDL2main from the Code::Blocks build. I obtained OpenGL32 from my Windows directory

sounds weird. You shouldn't do it like this.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Code::Blocks build", but you should obtain SDL libs as well as includes for it from http://libsdl.org/download-2.0.php and nowhere else. It's called "MinGW build".

OpenGL, on the other hand, shouldn't be obtained anywhere. It should already be a part of your compiler package. You can link it with just -lOpenGL32.