(I am aware there is a great deal of documentation on the subject, but I am either too inexperienced to find the one that works or I have a different problem than the one documented)
I am trying to load up a simple SDL wrapper that I wrote on my Mac on Linux (Lubuntu 20.04, LXQt 0.14.1). However when SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) is called, the following SDL_Error() return statement is generated: No available video device. I have verified that my DISPLAY envvar is set to :0 (which is correct according to xterm) and my SDL_VIDEODRIVER is unset.
Setting my SDL_VIDEODRIVER to x11 triggers this alternative error on init x11 not available.
I am rather stumped, the only possible conclusion I could draw from this is that I am somehow not using x11 or am going about this wrong.
Here is a minimal example that triggers this error:
#include <SDL2/SDL.h>
int main() {
SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
printf("%s\n", SDL_GetError());
}
I really appreciate any help I can get!
I am using the libsdl2-dev apt package for SDL2
Turns out that I had forgotten to link X11 during compilation which caused SDL_VIDEO to fail to initialise. This was resolved by using -lX11.
Thank you for the help!