# Compile errors (MinGW / SDL)
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [August 10, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303 "2015-08-10T07:42:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Shadefang](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shadefang)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2015, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/1 "2015-08-10T07:42:09Z")
I followed the directions in [COMPILING.md](http://COMPILING.md) for compiling under MinGW, and got a massive spam of thigns alongs the lines of:
: undefined reference to 'SDL\_(various things here)
[http://pastebin.com/HvNmSq6s](http://pastebin.com/HvNmSq6s)
running windows 7 64 bit, and as I said, followed the instructions in [COMPILING.md](http://COMPILING.md) for MinGW.
Very new to this type of thing, any help is appreciated.
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### Author:  [@DanmakuDan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DanmakuDan)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/2 "2015-08-10T13:11:28Z")
It looks like the SDL2\_image library is included, but the main SDL2 library is not (the references could be out of order). Which instructions are you using for Windows, the MinGW download or MSYS2?
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### Author:  [@Shadefang](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shadefang)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/3 "2015-08-11T01:57:00Z")
MinGW instructions.
EDIT: poking it today, noticed something I forgot to mention. the first thing is spits out to me when I run the make command (before g++) is a pair of: make: sdl2-config: Command not found
so the main SDL library being screwed makes sense, but I have no clue what I did wring in installing it.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/4 "2015-08-11T02:58:09Z")
It’s trying to run a program (sdl2-config) that tells it where the SDL libraries are, but it can’t find the program.
I don’t know if the mingw environment normally has those programs available.
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### Author:  [@Shadefang](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shadefang)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/5 "2015-08-11T04:15:53Z")
Seems so obvious in hindsight, thanks.
Just needed to toss the sdl2-config from sdl’s bin folder into the cataclysm directory.
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### Author:  [@DanmakuDan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DanmakuDan)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2015, 12:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/6 "2015-08-11T12:51:59Z")
I think for MinGW the bin/local bin folders have to be added to your Windows path variable so make can execute it without needing to know exactly where it is.
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### Author:  [@Shadefang](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shadefang)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2015, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/compile-errors-mingw-sdl/10303/7 "2015-08-11T22:48:34Z")
Already had the MinGW bin folder in in my path