I'm trying to compile the SDL libraries with Visual C++ (2010), and with Visual Leak Detector as to find a memory leak in another program that calls SDL.
The problem is that vld.h is a C++ library, and SDL.c is a C program. Accordingly, when I #include , the source doesn't compile as VLD seems to use a C++ specific constructs:
typedef int (__cdecl * VLD_REPORT_HOOK)(int reportType, wchar_t *message, int *returnValue);
__declspec(dllimport) int VLDSetReportHook(int mode, VLD_REPORT_HOOK pfnNewHook);
I've attempted compiling SDL.c as a C++ program, but I get a plethora of errors.
Is there any way I can include VLD in SDL?
(with thanks to @Matias Valdenegro)
The problem was the wchar_t. To be able to recompile SDL (and I assume other C source files) to include VLD, add
#include <wchar.h>
to both vld.h and vld_def.h. SDL will then happily compile, and can be used with an SDL program to detect memory leaks stemming from Surfaces and the like.