sdl-config(1)sdl-config(1)NAMEsdl-config - script to get information about the installed version of
SDL
SYNOPSISsdl-config [ --prefix[=DIR] ] [ --exec-prefix[=DIR] ] [ --version ]
[ --cflags ] [ --libs ] [ --static-libs ]
DESCRIPTIONsdl-config is a tool that is used to configure and determine the com‐
piler and linker flags that should be used to compile and link pro‐
grams, and libraries, and plugins that use SDL. It is also used inter‐
nally by the m4 macros that are included with SDL.
OPTIONS--cflags
Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a program
or library that uses SDL.
--exec-prefix=DIR
If specified, use DIR instead of the installation exec prefix
that SDL was build with when computing the output for the
--exec-prefix option. This option must be specified before any
of the --cflags, and --libs options.
--libs Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a program that
uses SDL.
--prefix=DIR
If specified, use DIR instead of the installation prefix that
SDL was built with when computing the output for the --prefix,
and --exec-prefix options. This option is also used for the
exec prefix if --exec-prefix was not specified. This option must
be specified before any of the --cflags, and --libs options.
--static-libs
Print the linker flags that are necessary to statically link a
program that uses SDL.
--version
Prints the currently installed version of SDL on standard out‐
put.
EXAMPLES
gcc -o main.o $(sdl-config --cflags) main.c
is how you might use sdl-config to compile a C source file for
an executable program.
gcc -o my_app $(sdl-config --libs) main.o util.o
is how you might use sdl-config to link compiled objects into an
executable program.
AUTHOR
The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library was written by Sam Lantinga.
This manual page was written by Branden Robinson, originally for Proge‐
ny Linux Systems, Inc., and the Debian Project.
This manual page was modified by Petr Pisar to match original SDL dis‐
tribution.
SDL 1.2 2013-06-19 sdl-config(1)