SDL/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory

Question

I'm trying to follow Lazy Foo's tutorials. But when I try to run one of his examples I get this compiler error:

error: SDL/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory

The compiler/linker is set up correctly, I'm using Code::Blocks on Windows XP.

However, the problem is simply that there are no SDL_image.h. I've checked in the folder that it supposedly should have been. I tried to download the SDL library again and checked again, still no SDL_image.h file. Where did the SDL_image.h file go?

The library I dowloaded was the 'SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32.tar.gz' under 'Development Libraries' for Win32 from this link: http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

Solution 1

You need to install SDL_image separately. It's not shipped with SDL.

Solution 2

You need to install SDL_image library like mentioned in the other answers, if you are on a Debian based systems you can simply install with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev

Solution 3

In the third tutorial of lazyfoo is completely explained.

Basically, you must add "-lSDL_image" to the compilation line.

Solution 4

In your case as you are using windows, then you should first install sdl_image and then

#include <SDL_image.h>

not

#include <SDL/SDL_image.h>

If you were using linux and your sdl-image package is installed to /usr/include/SDL then you need to use

#include <SDL_image.h>

In most cases when you install from source in linux. Your package may not be resident in /usr/include/SDL

In these kind of situation, I use

#include <SDL/SDL_image.h>

and it works

Solution 5

i had same problem "error: SDL/SDL_image.h: No such file or directory", i solved this by doing this: http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Using_SDL_with_Code::Blocks ...look at the picture with name "Project's build options" and write things inside that red circles in my case it helped. Good luck! (sorry for bad English) :P

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Comments

[Bit Fracture]

For those who are using SDL2, the file name has changed to "SDL2_image.h". See documentation: wiki.libsdl.org/MigrationGuide#line-435

[alok]

On my box, the file is located at /usr/local/include/SDL2/SDL_image.h. Essentially, requiring an import from "SDL2/SDL_image.h" and linking with -lSDL_image.

[Hi-Angel]

@BitFracture it probably depends, for me it's still SDL_image.h, to be exact it's SDL2/SDL_image.h.

[Bit Fracture]

@Hi-Angel The important point here is that it might not be in the same place for everyone. Hopefully knowing this will prevent some face-palms.

[HolyBlackCat]

SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-VC.zip is for Visual Studio, using it with MinGW is a bad idea. I'm surprised it worked for you at all. You should be using SDL2_image-devel-2.0.5-mingw.tar.gz.

[Softmixt]

yes you are right is wrong folder sorry my bad , comment changed.

[Phoenix]

On macOS, you can get this with brew install sdl2 sdl2_image, at least for when building Brogue CE.