This was the fix needed for ridding errors, namely ones claiming 'undefined reference', in Eclipse's C++ IDE. In the video I'm running Debian Linux (64-bit).
SDL actually does have library files, on my previous system they were properly stored in /usr/lib, but Debian made the bizarre decision to stuff them under the /usr/lib/x64_linux-gnu directory.
Here are the Stack Exchange pages I used for fully fixing the errors:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4...