Install SDL on Raspberry Pi

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Calvin Hass edited this page Feb 3, 2019 · 4 revisions

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Installing SDL on Raspberry Pi

Install the SDL1.2 library

Before any further installation, it is best to ensure everything is up-to-date by issuing: sudo apt-get update
Now let's install the SDL1.2 package

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2-dev
sudo apt-get install libsdl-ttf2.0-dev

Clone the GUIslice library

The GUIslice library includes some example tests for SDL operation that will be helpful to ensure your installation is configured correctly. Therefore, it would be useful to fetch a copy of the GUIslice library at this step.
To keep things organized, optionally create a subfolder (eg. cd ~; mkdir dev; cd dev)
git clone https://github.com/ImpulseAdventure/GUIslice

Run SDL1.2 Test

Now let's test out the GUIslice SDL examples

cd GUIslice/examples/linux
make test_sdl1

Run the example with sudo ./test_sdl1
- If SDL1.2 has been installed and configured correctly, you should see the PiTFT display show a colorful gradient

Continue with Touch driver installation

Now that the graphics drivers are working correctly, we can proceed to install the tslib touch drivers