cannot open source file "begin_code.h" (dependency of "SDL2/SDL.h")

Question

When attempting to setup SDL2 with VS Code in Ubuntu 20.01 LTM I get the following VS Code error:

cannot open source file "begin_code.h" (dependency of "SDL2/SDL.h")

Any tips?

Answer 1

Just add "/usr/include/SDL2/" to your c_cpp_properties.json like so:

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**",
                "/usr/include/SDL2/"
            ],
            "defines": [],
            "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
            "cStandard": "gnu18",
            "cppStandard": "gnu++14",
            "intelliSenseMode": "gcc-x64"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}