Issue

I am using the CMake template from Visual Studio, with WSL: Ubuntu.

When compiling I get:
libSDL2_image.so, needed by 'SDL_prototype/SDL_prototype', missing and no known rule to make it

I downloaded SDL2_image-devel-2.8.2-mingw.tar.gz from the SDL2_image github releases page.
I have the SDL2_image-devel in my project directory, telling my CMake where it is using PATHS keyword on the find_package() function.

I am linking the libraries with:

target_link_libraries(SDL_prototype SDL2::SDL2 SDL2::SDL2main)

target_link_libraries(SDL_prototype SDL2_image::SDL2_image)

Also, when printing SDL2_IMAGE_INCLUDE_DIRS & SDL2_IMAGE_LIBRARY, it shows blank.

What I Have Tried

I have tried linking SDL_image in a couple of ways, every time deleting cache and reconfiguring:

1. I would get a segmentation fault from using
   target_link_libraries() on the libSDL2_image.a file:
   
   ../../../~linux_LIB/SDL2-2.30.1/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libSDL2.dll.a(SDL2_dll_d000613.o):(.idata$7+0x0): dangerous relocation: collect2: fatal error: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault]

2. linking with target_link_libraries(SDL_prototype ${SDL2_LIBRARIES} ${SDL2_IMAGE_LIBRARY}) hasnt worked,
   giving me ‘no such file or directory’ on SDL_image stuff.

3. I have tried getting SDL through apt get and finding package without the PATHS keyword, getting me :
   Could not find a package configuration file provided by "SDL2_image" when configuring CMake.

This is my first time using CMake, or building for linux, any help would be appreciated. 🙂