SDL2 along with SDL_ttf, SDL_image, and SDL_mixer are all you need to create a simple game in C++. This project template includes boilerplate code, and the basic project setup.
g++ must be installed on your computer, to learn how to get the right version on windows, you can just watch CoderGophers Tutorial mingw32 or make will hopefully come with g++, so make sure to do that. Visual Studio Code should be installed on your computer.
To build this project in debug with all the errors showing, enter these commands:
cd bin/debug
make
or
cd bin/debug &&
mingw32-make
to build the project in debug mode.
Sadly, the faster means more dangerous, since release mode doesn't have any -Wall flags, your project can exceed your memory and shut down your computer. Make sure to test in debug mode first.
To build this project:
cd bin/release
make
or
cd bin/release
mingw32-make
to build the project in the fastest mode to have optimizations.
Thanks to PolyMars for some of the build code. Thanks to CoderGopher for most of the inspiration.