31 Saw this post here about using SDL_ttf to render text in a game. However that approach requires calling SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface (), along with the SDL_FreeSurface () and SDL_DestroyTexture () every single frame.
I want to make a game using SDL2, but I'm unable to compile and/or run my code, please help! SDL2 is notoriously hard to set up, and it's often the first library aspiring game developers try to use.
sdl - How to render fonts and text with SDL2 efficiently ... - Stack ...
SDL_Texture and SDL_Surface The SDL_Renderer renders SDL_Texture, which stores the pixel information of one element. It's the new version of SDL_Surface which is much the same. The difference is mostly that SDL_Surface is just a struct containing pixel information, while SDL_Texture is an efficient, driver-specific representation of pixel data.
SDL2_image, as the name implies, is for SDL2, not for SDL3. It seems a version of SDL_image for SDL3 wasn't released yet, but but they do support SDL3 in their main branch. So you'll have to build SDL_image from source.
sdl - Why do I get "SDL2.dll not found" error when loading .png files ...
My downvote: you are calling SDL_GetWindowSurface with unitialized wind as argument. Afterwards you initialize it with SDL_CreateWindow. If anything, the order of those operations is reversed. Note, none of these solutions work properly with OpenGL. The question was how to init the window with predefined color, not how to paint the first frame.
How do I use SDL2 in my programs correctly? - Stack Overflow