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orionYoung

Member

From: Upper Michigan

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 14

configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

Trying to compile several games but they all give me this comfigure error

checking for SDL - version >= 1.2.0... no
*** Could not run SDL test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means SDL was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved SDL since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the sdl-config script: /usr/bin/sdl-config
configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

I have installed the newest version of SDL. I had this problem with other distros but all I had to do was install the SDL-Development libraries. I thought that would help but there are no pacman pkg's for SDL-Devel. Any ideas?

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mpie

Member

From: 404 Not found

Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

all arch pkg's have the equvalent options of dev pkgs...

try ./configure --prefix=/usr

orionYoung

Member

From: Upper Michigan

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 14

Re: configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

Sorry I am so slow to respond. I don't have internet at home, so I'm not on very often.

Thanks for the attempt but it did not change anything! If you need more info I can post it for you.

thanks!

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: configure: error: *** SDL version 1.2.0 not found!

What games are you trying to compile?