Required libraries SDL2 , SDL2_ttf, SDL2_image can be installed using :

sudo apt install libsdl2-dev # for SDL2 lib sudo apt-get install libsdl2-ttf-dev # for SDL2_ttf sudo apt-get install libsdl2-image-dev # for SDL2_image

compiler flags should be included: -lSDL2 # for SDL2 -lSDL2_ttf # for SDL2_ttf -lSDL2_image # for SDL2_image