Can't get latest SDL to work

SDL Development
1

Hey, I’m having problems getting latest SDL working. I ran ./configure; make; make install and when it finished installing, I ran clang test.c -I/usr/local/include/SDL2 -L/usr/local/lib -l:libSDL2.a -lm but it would give this wall of errors: https://pastebin.com/hxi3Qzdf
Here’s the C code:

#include <unistd.h>
#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_hints.h"
#include "SDL_version.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    // Testing if I did everything properly
    SDL_version compiled;
    SDL_version linked;

    SDL_VERSION(&compiled);
    SDL_GetVersion(&linked);
    printf("We compiled against SDL version %d.%d.%d ...\n",
            compiled.major, compiled.minor, compiled.patch);
    printf("But we are linking against SDL version %d.%d.%d.\n",
            linked.major, linked.minor, linked.patch);
	return 0;

	if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_EVERYTHING) != 0) {
		printf("error initializing SDL: %s\n", SDL_GetError());
	}
	SDL_SetHint(SDL_HINT_X11_WINDOW_TYPE, "_NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK");
	printf("Le hint: %s\n", SDL_GetHint(SDL_HINT_X11_WINDOW_TYPE));
	SDL_Window *myDockWindow = SDL_CreateWindow("Dock Window", 100, 100, 100, 100, 0);

	sleep(6);

	return 0;
}

It seems like it’s having problems linking necessary libraries, but I’m new to C and the linkers concept so I’m not sure how to fix it.

2

If you’re not going to use pkgconfig to get linker flags, you have to do them all yourself.
Better to use pkgconfig.

At a minimum, it looks like you’re missing -ldl .

3

Looks like they’re also missing -lm

Definitely compile with clang test.c -o test `sdl2-config --cflags --libs` instead of manually specifying everything