Installing SDL development libraries on Linux

SDL Development
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Ok, here’s my situation: My hard drive died last week, and I decided to try a
Mandrake 9.0 installation instead of returning to the dark ways of W98…
Must say I’m quite amazed at how well it’s working so far…

My point? Oh yeah. I want to be able to compile SDL apps. I’m very familiar
with SDL itself from my coding under W98, somewhat familiar with Linux from
my messing with the Linux boxes at the U of R, and once went through the
KDeveloper FAQ and managed to make a working SDL application. So that’s my
skill level at the moment.

I made an extremely simple .c file that includes “SDL.h” and contains empty
main() that just returns 0, and compiled it with gcc like ‘gcc -o myproggy
myproggy.c’, and it can’t find SDL.h. No problem, I thought, just install
the source RPM right? According to KPackage, this box’s got libSDL 1.2.4 on
it, so I downloaded the appropriate source RPM and installed it. Nothing. I
can’t even FIND sdl.h or any of the sourcecode searching through the
directory tree… so, how do I get the SDL source installed properly?

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You need sdl-devel not the source.

And you need to link the sdl library too.
The following line is usefull, because you don’t need to think what
libraries to link etc.

gcc sdl-config --cflags sdl-config --libs -o exename source.cOn Saturday 22 February 2003 01:39, Tyler Montbriand wrote:

Ok, here’s my situation: My hard drive died last week, and I decided
to try a Mandrake 9.0 installation instead of returning to the dark
ways of W98… Must say I’m quite amazed at how well it’s working so
far…

My point? Oh yeah. I want to be able to compile SDL apps. I’m very
familiar with SDL itself from my coding under W98, somewhat familiar
with Linux from my messing with the Linux boxes at the U of R, and
once went through the KDeveloper FAQ and managed to make a working
SDL application. So that’s my skill level at the moment.

I made an extremely simple .c file that includes “SDL.h” and contains
empty main() that just returns 0, and compiled it with gcc like ‘gcc
-o myproggy myproggy.c’, and it can’t find SDL.h. No problem, I
thought, just install the source RPM right? According to KPackage,
this box’s got libSDL 1.2.4 on it, so I downloaded the appropriate
source RPM and installed it. Nothing. I can’t even FIND sdl.h or
any of the sourcecode searching through the directory tree… so,
how do I get the SDL source installed properly?

3

Ok, here’s my situation: My hard drive died last week, and I decided to try a
Mandrake 9.0 installation instead of returning to the dark ways of W98…
Must say I’m quite amazed at how well it’s working so far…

My point? Oh yeah. I want to be able to compile SDL apps. I’m very familiar
with SDL itself from my coding under W98, somewhat familiar with Linux from
my messing with the Linux boxes at the U of R, and once went through the
KDeveloper FAQ and managed to make a working SDL application. So that’s my
skill level at the moment.

I made an extremely simple .c file that includes “SDL.h” and contains empty
main() that just returns 0, and compiled it with gcc like ‘gcc -o myproggy
myproggy.c’, and it can’t find SDL.h. No problem, I thought, just install
the source RPM right? According to KPackage, this box’s got libSDL 1.2.4 on
it, so I downloaded the appropriate source RPM and installed it. Nothing. I
can’t even FIND sdl.h or any of the sourcecode searching through the
directory tree… so, how do I get the SDL source installed properly?

I suspect you need the dev package, not the source package.

Ron Steinke

“The sound of gunfire, off in the distance. I’m getting used to it now.”
– Talking Heads> From: Tyler Montbriand

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one way to tell on unixes if sdl has been configured/installed properly or
not is to type this at the prompt:

sdl-config

if that says “file not found” then, you know for sure SDL has not been setup
properly. if it says some stuff like “usage: sdl-config [–cflags]” then
you know sdl is atleast partialy setup.

give it a whirl, see what it says.> ----- Original Message -----

From: rsteinke@w-link.net ()
To:
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [SDL] Installing SDL development libraries on Linux

From: Tyler Montbriand

Ok, here’s my situation: My hard drive died last week, and I decided to
try a

Mandrake 9.0 installation instead of returning to the dark ways of
W98…

Must say I’m quite amazed at how well it’s working so far…

My point? Oh yeah. I want to be able to compile SDL apps. I’m very
familiar

with SDL itself from my coding under W98, somewhat familiar with Linux
from

my messing with the Linux boxes at the U of R, and once went through the
KDeveloper FAQ and managed to make a working SDL application. So that’s
my

skill level at the moment.

I made an extremely simple .c file that includes “SDL.h” and contains
empty

main() that just returns 0, and compiled it with gcc like 'gcc -o
myproggy

myproggy.c’, and it can’t find SDL.h. No problem, I thought, just
install

the source RPM right? According to KPackage, this box’s got libSDL
1.2.4 on

it, so I downloaded the appropriate source RPM and installed it.
Nothing. I

can’t even FIND sdl.h or any of the sourcecode searching through the
directory tree… so, how do I get the SDL source installed properly?

I suspect you need the dev package, not the source package.

Ron Steinke

“The sound of gunfire, off in the distance. I’m getting used to it now.”
– Talking Heads

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SDL at libsdl.org
http://www.libsdl.org/mailman/listinfo/sdl

5

You need sdl-devel not the source.

slaps forehead D’goo… I didn’t scroll down far enuf. Installed and
working, though upgrading libSDL1.2.4 to libSDL1.2.5 was tricky.

And you need to link the sdl library too.
The following line is usefull, because you don’t need to think what
libraries to link etc.

gcc sdl-config --cflags sdl-config --libs -o exename source.c

And it works. Thanks! :DOn Friday 21 February 2003 05:57 pm, Sami N??t?nen wrote: