Resolving dependencies... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/SDL-0.5.0-25521/SDL-0.5.0/Setup.lhs, /tmp/SDL-0.5.0-25521/SDL-0.5.0/dist/setup/Main.o ) /tmp/SDL-0.5.0-25521/SDL-0.5.0/Setup.lhs:4:31: Warning: In the use of `defaultUserHooks' (imported from Distribution.Simple): Deprecated: "Use simpleUserHooks or autoconfUserHooks, unless you need Cabal-1.2 compatibility in which case you must stick with defaultUserHooks" Linking /tmp/SDL-0.5.0-25521/SDL-0.5.0/dist/setup/setup ... Warning: defaultUserHooks in Setup script is deprecated. Configuring SDL-0.5.0... Warning: No 'build-type' specified. If you do not need a custom Setup.hs or ./configure script then use 'build-type: Simple'. setup: Missing dependency on a foreign library: * Missing (or bad) header file: SDL.h This problem can usually be solved by installing the system package that provides this library (you may need the "-dev" version). If the library is already installed but in a non-standard location then you can use the flags --extra-include-dirs= and --extra-lib-dirs= to specify where it is. If the header file does exist, it may contain errors that are caught by the C compiler at the preprocessing stage. In this case you can re-run configure with the verbosity flag -v3 to see the error messages. Failed to install SDL-0.5.0 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: SDL-0.5.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1