Sdl-devel tarbal?

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Hi All,

I am running a version of slackware 10.2 and I couldn’t find any versions of
the sdl-devel packages for slackware, so I tried installing the rpm (NOTE: I
hate rpm’s). Needless to say it complained about failed dependancies etc. I
don’t see why it would fail, I have the slackware 10.2 version of libsdl
installed. All I want to do is develop using slackware and SDL.

Would it work if I just compiled the SDL source code? I thought that would only
give me the working libraries and not the headers etc. for compiling my own
progs?

Thanks for any help. Sry if this is n00b, but hey… we all started somewhere!

-Timbobsteve

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Timbobsteve wrote:

Hi All,

I am running a version of slackware 10.2 and I couldn’t find any versions of
the sdl-devel packages for slackware, so I tried installing the rpm (NOTE: I
hate rpm’s). Needless to say it complained about failed dependancies etc. I
don’t see why it would fail, I have the slackware 10.2 version of libsdl
installed. All I want to do is develop using slackware and SDL.

Would it work if I just compiled the SDL source code? I thought that would only
give me the working libraries and not the headers etc. for compiling my own
progs?

You may install SDL from the source tar balls(SDL-1.2.9), it contain
necessarily headers & libraries. Surely it works.

Thanks for any help. Sry if this is n00b, but hey… we all started somewhere!

-Timbobsteve

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

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You do not need a devel tarball on slackware. Packaging in slackware
(in most case) installs at the same time the runtime and the
development libs. If you want to compiles and link a program using SDL
you can make use of sdl-config to get the flags.

sdl-config --libs / sdl-config --cflagsOn 12/21/05, sigsegv11 wrote:

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Timbobsteve wrote:

Hi All,

I am running a version of slackware 10.2 and I couldn’t find any versions of
the sdl-devel packages for slackware, so I tried installing the rpm (NOTE: I
hate rpm’s). Needless to say it complained about failed dependancies etc. I
don’t see why it would fail, I have the slackware 10.2 version of libsdl
installed. All I want to do is develop using slackware and SDL.

Would it work if I just compiled the SDL source code? I thought that would only
give me the working libraries and not the headers etc. for compiling my own
progs?

You may install SDL from the source tar balls(SDL-1.2.9), it contain
necessarily headers & libraries. Surely it works.

Thanks for any help. Sry if this is n00b, but hey… we all started somewhere!

-Timbobsteve

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

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