I run a SDL tutorial site and I have a tutorial to set up SDL on code blocks. I want to make sure it stays up to date so I have a few questions regarding the future of code blocks. I apologize in advance if this is the wrong board to ask this on.
Here's my set up tutorial
http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/windows/codeblocks/index.php.
You only see images from the RC2 version of code blocks because officially I only support RC2 of code::blocks, simply because I don't have the time to be updating the tutorial to catch up with the nightly builds.
I do at least want to have some support for the nightly builds by putting text instructions in the tutorial. A small while ago, one of my readers was complaining that my instructions didn't work because code blocks would try to link against SDL.dll. MinGW is supposed to link against .lib and .a files so that isn't right. Has this bug been fixed yet?
Also in the article I'm currently working on I use DevIL. It was a bit of a pain to get working on Dev C++ but I got it to work. While I was searching for a solution I noticed lots of people tried to get DevIL working on code blocks with little success because the .lib files didn't work. I just want to verify if the DevIL .a files that I created for Dev C++ work on code blocks. I'm guessing they should because both IDEs use MinGW. Could anybody here verify that they work? Link to the .a files:
http://lazyfoo.net/downloads/DevIL_lib.zipI'd test all this myself, it's just that I'm really strapped for time.
Once last question, I know the menu set up has changed since RC2. Is it expected to change between now until the next non-nightly build release? Because if it isn't I might as well redo the tutorial images.