How to set up soda?

SuperMatCat24

Specifically, the SDL paths. I'm not sure where exactly I should put it, or what I should actually be downloading. I've followed all the steps for the windows build if that helps, Most of the errors when building are some form of "E:\soda-main\soda\src\SdlUtils.h(12): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'SDL2/SDL.h': No such file or directory".

I think I need to install the "SDL2_image-devel-2.8.2-VC.zip" version, but im not sure what to do with the files after that.

jstrout

Yeah, SDL paths are a friggin' nightmare and are by far my main gripe with SDL. Sometimes you have to have the SDL headers under a SDL2/ folder, other times you don't. It seems to me that there is no way to specify the paths in code that works on both Windows and Mac/Linux, out of the box.

Then there's the fact that SDL_image uses #include <SDL.h>, even though SDL itself uses <SDL2/SDL.h>. So charming.

But I did manage to get it to work, at least a few times. My notes say:

(using the Developer Command Prompt app):

In the Build folder (with appropriate symlink to SDL2), run the following build command.
cl /EHsc /I. /ISDL2 /IMiniScript /I..\..\..\SDL2_image-2.0.5\include /wd4068 *.cpp MiniScript/*.cpp compiledData/*.c /Fesoda.exe /link ..\..\..\SDL2-2.0.16\lib\x86\SDL2.lib ..\..\..\SDL2-2.0.16\lib\x86\SDL2main.lib ..\..\..\SDL2_image-2.0.5\lib\x86\*.lib Shell32.lib /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE
Move the resulting soda.exe into the Build folder, where we have all the needed DLLs: libjpeg-9, libpng16-16, libtiff-5, libwebp-7, SDL2, SDL2_image, and zlib1.

I hope this helps! If not we'll have to just keep experimenting, and/or hop into the SDL discord and plea for help.

SuperMatCat24

Thank you! This is helping out a ton!
I've made a "Build" folder at "E:/soda-main/soda" and a symlink to the SDL2 folder (Or at least what I think is the right folder), and after running the command, i get this error:
*.cpp c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: '*.cpp': No such file or directory *.cpp c1xx: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'MiniScript/*.cpp': No such file or directory Generating Code... Compiling... *.c c1: fatal error C1083: Cannot open source file: 'compiledData/*.c': No such file or directory Generating Code...

Any clue as to what I've done wrong? xd

Main soda directory

SDL folder

and the Symlink

jstrout

It's been quite a while since I last did this. 😅 But I would hazard to guess that you're running the cl command from the wrong directory. It would need to be somewhere where you have .cpp files and a MiniScript/ folder.