How to install SDL2 development files in fossapup?

[user1234]

I have installed all the sdl2 libraries that I could find in PPM, but I don't think any of them contained its dev libraries. Though when manually searching for sdl libraries using

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find / -name sdl*

I get the names of a lot of sdl header files.

I think then only the sdl2 image dev package would be needed, which I cannot find anywhere.

Also when I try to compile any sdl c program I get an error saying "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lSDL2_image" when I do not include sdl2 image header file from within the code (#include prepocessor directive), and when I include the header file I get an error saying "hello3_image.c:8:10: fatal error: SDL2/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory".

The difference in the errors is only due to the one getting error at preprocessing and one at linking, I think.

So, how can I install SDL2_image development files, and the other SDL2 dev files you think might be necessary?

[OscarTalks]

Use PPM to search for and install libsdl2-image-dev
There is also libsdl2-mixer-dev for audio
Plus some others less likely to be needed like libsdl2-ttf-dev for fonts
The names of SDL (1.2) and SDL2 packages can be confusing unless you pay close attention
Remember that you have to tick the DEV option in PPM for development libraries to be displayed

[rockedge]

Remember that you have to tick the DEV option in PPM for development libraries to be displayed

important to make it easy to find the dev packages in PPM

[user1234]

Remember that you have to tick the DEV option in PPM for development libraries to be displayed

Got it. Had not ticked the dev option. Thanks!