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./configure error: no sdl-config?

I'm a newbie running Fedora Core 3, and this is my first attempt at compiling a program from source. I got as far as running ./configure before I got an error. Here's the output of that command:

Code:

loading cache ./config.cache

checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes

checking for working aclocal... found

checking for working autoconf... found

checking for working automake... found

checking for working autoheader... found

checking for working makeinfo... found

checking for gcc... gcc

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no

checking whether we are using GNU C... yes

checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for ranlib... ranlib

checking for main in -lm... yes

checking for sdl-config... no

checking for SDL - version >= 1.0.0... no

*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found

*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in

*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the

*** full path to sdl-config.

configure: error: lib SDL is needed

Would someone please explain to me what sdl-config is, and how I might go about putting it where it needs to be?

Many thanks in advance!

Is SDL installed at all?

Cheers,
Tink

A very valid question!

I went to libsdl.org and got the latest version rpm available (1.2.7), but when I tried to install it, I was told that I already had a *newer* version of SDL installed. Based on a suggestion from another board, I was instructed to provide the output of 'rpm -qa |grep -i sdl', which is:

SDL_net-1.2.5-2
SDL-1.2.7-8
SDL_mixer-1.2.5-4

So, I guess it's installed, but not where it needs to be? Or is the issue perhaps related to what seems to be two different versions? Thanks for the help!

Quote:

*** The sdl-config script installed by SDL could not be found
*** If SDL was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in
*** your path, or set the SDL_CONFIG environment variable to the
*** full path to sdl-config.

Since sdl is installed do as ./configure says, add in your PATH the sdl bin directory and/or set the SDL_CONFIG variable::

Code:

export PATH=/path/to/sdl/bin:$PATH

export SDL_CONFIG=/full/path/to/sdl-config

and re-run ./configure

THANK YOU!

From your help, I was able to track down and install the libraries I needed, and have now successfully compiled! Thank you for helping me along on the beginnings of my GNU/Linux journey!