fatal error: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory [closed]

I am trying to practice lesson_1 at

When I run the code named cube.c I got

cube.c:16:21: fatal error: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory #include <SDL/SDL.h> ^
compilation terminated.

I've installed SDL2 with guidance at

I am using 14.04 though..

The installation of SDL2 was successful I did not get any error.

The SDL.h file is located in "/usr/local/include/SDL2"

I tried to force to use fullpath linking by command

gcc cube.c -lglut -lGL -lGLU -l/usr/local/include/SDL2

instead of

gcc cube.c -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lSDL

But all were in vain...

Does anybody know solution for this linking problem?

As what muru pointed out I changed to captial i got "error: unknown type name ‘SDL_keysym’" meaning worked.

Other way I discovered was

I changed

#include <SDL/SDL.h> 

to

#include <SDL2/SDL.h>

No longer shows "fatal error: SDL/SDL.h: No such file or directory" Thus for now consider solved. However I am getting the following errors that will be posting on separate thread.

cube.c:105:22: error: unknown type name ‘SDL_keysym’ void handleKeyPress( SDL_keysym *keysym ) ^
cube.c: In function ‘main’:
cube.c:239:5: error: unknown type name ‘SDL_VideoInfo’ const SDL_VideoInfo *videoInfo; ^

A.B.: I pasted output of your suggested commands below.

gcc cube.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl`
Package sdl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `sdl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'sdl' found
gcc cube.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl2`
cube.c:105:22: error: unknown type name ‘SDL_keysym’ void handleKeyPress( SDL_keysym *keysym ) ^
cube.c: In function ‘main’:
cube.c:239:5: error: unknown type name ‘SDL_VideoInfo’ const SDL_VideoInfo *videoInfo; ^
errors continue....

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1 Answer

Probably you have already installed the libraries, I show the steps but again for the reason of completeness.

• SDL2

  sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev

• SDL1

  sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev

Start the compilation with:

• SDL2

  gcc cube.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl2`

• SDL1

  gcc cube.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl`

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Sample output:

% pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl
-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL -lSDL
% pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl2
-D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/SDL2 -lSDL2

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