Visual Studio 2013 external symbol errors with SDL 2.0

Question

So all I'm trying to do is move from a different IDE to Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. I've done a lot of research to try to fix it but I've tried it all. Here's the code that I'm trying to get working so that everything else can work as well:

#include <SDL.h>

int main(int argc, char* args[])
{
    SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);

    // game code eventually goes here

    SDL_Quit();

    return 0;
}

Here's the errors that I get when I try to run "Local Windows Debugger"

1>------ Build started: Project: SDLGame, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  Source.cpp
1>Source.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __RTC_CheckEsp referenced in function _SDL_main
1>Source.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __RTC_InitBase
1>Source.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __RTC_Shutdown
1>LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _mainCRTStartup
1>C:\Users\Austin\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\SDLGame\Debug\SDLGame.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 4 unresolved externals
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Here are some pictures of what I've changed to try to fix my issues. If you go here, you can see 4 pictures. I don't have enough reputation to include them into a hyperlink or whatever. imgur.com/f52YKld,f82dIbc,kUIad56,1DqpiJP#0

I even tried using x64 libraries just in case and it still didn't work.

possible duplicate of [What is an undefined reference/unresolved external symbol error and how do I fix it?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12573816/what-is-an-undefined-reference-unresolved-external-symbol-error-and-how-do-i-fix) — genpfault, Nov 29 '14 at 14:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '14 at 13:38

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please see the following tutorial regarding how to correctly configure SDL in Visual Studio

http://zamma.co.uk/setup-sdl2-in-visual-studio/

It looks like you are half way there and that you are just missing the linker configuration for the libraries.

answered Nov 29 '14 at 13:38

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Quote: "Now expand the C/C++ tree and select the Code Generation section". – Hans Passant Nov 29 '14 at 15:25

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '14 at 20:54

Alright so I already followed the tutorial regarding correctly configuring SDL in Visual Studio BEFORE I posted this. However I've fixed my problem by installing VS Express with window desktop instead of the community one. Isn't REALLY an answer but it worked for me.

Visual Studio 2013 external symbol errors with SDL 2.0

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