[SDL] error when deleting window?

[stav]

why cant i delete the window* i got from SDL_CreateWindow()
in my class destructor?

i wanna release it from the heap but its not allowing me?
is it because sdl is doing it automatically for me or what?

thanks :)

[helios]

http://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_DestroyWindow

You can only delete pointers that have been created by new.

[stav]

ah thanks,
but why do i get an error when i try to delete it the usual way with the delete keyword?

[Peter87]

SDL is written in C so it probably uses malloc/calloc to allocate the memory so if anything you should use free to delete it, but don't do that! C doesn't have destructors. That's why they provide you with a special function for destroying the window so that they can run additional code to clean up everything properly.

[stav]

thanks