A Strange Compile Error

Hi,

I hope this is the right place to ask such a question. First things first: I am using FC5; my installation is fairly up-to-date. Over the weekend I downloaded a whole bunch of SDL libraries.

I am now trying to compile a programme that requires SDL_image. I know I have the library, because (a) "locate" returns "/usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0" and "/usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.3" among others, and (b) I can run another applications that makes use of this library.

But when I type "make all" in this programme, I get the following error:

Quote:

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lSDL_image
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [client] Error 1

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Can someone please tell me what is going on?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Do you have to specify version? (lSDL_image-1.2)

Perhaps make a symlink and call it libSDL_image.so.

Have you installed the SDL dev packages?

Thanks, everyone, for your responses.

Yes, it turned out to be a matter of symlinking the numbered version to SDL_image.so.

CornedBee, I want to install the SDL devel packages, and I also want to install the OpenGL devel packages. I just cannot seem to find the right yum command. If you happen to know it off the top of your head, I would be very grateful to you. (SDL_devel and opengl_devel don't work.)