stefanullinger to me I updated and wanted to compile SDL, but it does not work. The reason is the new pre-build step. Currently it says: "if exist $(SolutionDir)\..\include\SDL_config.h goto SDLCONFIGOKAY echo Copying SDL_config_win32.h to SDL_config.h... copy $(SolutionDir)\..\include\SDL_config_win32.h $(SolutionDir)\..\include\SDL_config.h :SDLCONFIGOKAY if exist $(SolutionDir)\..\include\SDL_revision.h goto SDLREVISIONOKAY echo Creating stub SDL_revision.h file... echo #define SDL_REVISION 0 >$(SolutionDir)\..\include\SDL_revision.h :SDLREVISIONOKAY" So ... the problem with this lines is, that they lookup the SolutionDir... I think it should use the ProjectDir here! I - for example - want to use SDL within my engine... So my engine is the solutionDir...not SDL...SDL is just a sub-project. I think you should change this, shouldn't you?! Regards, Stefan

/* Test program to compare the compile-time version of SDL with the linked
   version of SDL
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#include "SDL.h"

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    SDL_version compiled;
    SDL_version linked;

#if SDL_VERSION_ATLEAST(1, 3, 0)
    printf("Compiled with SDL 1.3 or newer\n");
#else
    printf("Compiled with SDL older than 1.3\n");
#endif
    SDL_VERSION(&compiled);
    printf("Compiled version: %d.%d.%d-%d\n",
           compiled.major, compiled.minor, compiled.patch, SDL_REVISION);
    SDL_GetVersion(&linked);
    printf("Linked version: %d.%d.%d-%d\n",
           linked.major, linked.minor, linked.patch, SDL_GetRevision());
    SDL_Quit();
    return (0);
}