Thanks for the response. I did test that shortly after my post and indeed it did not break like the prev version. Appreciate all the contributions and hard work from st.

Maybe I am missing something here....I uninstalled cube ide 1.0.2installed cube ide 1.1.0, created a new project, and still got the SDL2 compile error. I still had to manually exclude all the simulator folders and the SDL2 file in order to get it to ...