Sdl-config not found

SDL Development
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Hi :
I have Mandrake Linux 8.1. Some programs that I try to make say that sdl-config is not found. As explained in the faq, I tried to do the following commands from the command line at the root :
sdl-config --version
which sdl-config

both of these return : cannot find sdl-config. I did a find file in the root for sdl-config and it was not found. I downloaded the src and the dev rpm’s and they will not run - says package is already present.

my /etc/ld.so.conf file has the following line in it :
/usr/X11R6/lib
it doesn’t make any difference if I change it to /usr/local/lib. sdl-config is not in that directory or the /usr/X11R6/lib directory.

Please help. I can’t compile any of the code I’ve downloaded although I can run things that are already compiled.

Scott Miller
@S_Miller

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Hi : > I have Mandrake Linux 8.1. Some programs that I try to make
say that sdl-config is not found. As explained in the faq, I tried
to do the following commands from the command line at the root :
sdl-config --version
which sdl-config

Does /usr/local/bin/sdl-config --version work?

both of these return : cannot find sdl-config. I did a find file in
the root for sdl-config and it was not found. I downloaded the src
and the dev rpm’s and they will not run - says package is already
present. my /etc/ld.so.conf file has the following line in it :
/usr/X11R6/lib it doesn’t make any difference if I change it to
/usr/local/lib. sdl-config is not in that directory or the
/usr/X11R6/lib directory.

ld.so.conf is your shared library search path. It should contain both
/usr/X11R6/lib and /usr/local/lib. After you change it, be sure to
run ldconfig.

The program path (contained in the PATH environment variable) is
different from the library search path. You may need to add
/usr/local/bin to your program path; if so, have a look at
/etc/profile.

-JohnOn Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0600, S. Miller wrote:

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John R. Hall - Resident, Sol System, 3rd Planet Out
Student, Georgia Tech; Author, Programming Linux Games

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How did you install SDL? If you installed from packages (eg, RPM), you’ll
need to make sure to install the “-devel” packages, too (eg, “SDL-devel”)

-bill!On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0600, S. Miller wrote:

Hi :
I have Mandrake Linux 8.1. Some programs that I try to make say that sdl-config is not found. As explained in the faq, I tried to do the following commands from the command line at the root :
sdl-config --version
which sdl-config

both of these return : cannot find sdl-config.