ImportError: libSDL2-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[amalrkc]

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS running on Windows 11 WSL

How do I fix this?

[merwok]

Do you have libsdl2 installed?

[amalrkc]

Ohh My bad! I did not catch that step in the README.

I did install sdl with sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0-0 as mentioned here.

The CLI seems to be working but fails run scripts due to some problem with the audio subsystem.

I'm not sure if this is a side effect of trying to run scripts on top of Windows WSL.

[merwok]

Probably!
I don’t know if WSL is meant for scripts only; working with system resources like audio or inputs would require a translation layer.
Question: why not use a windows terminal to run pyxel games on windows?

[amalrkc]

Okay, there was something broken with my Python installation on Windows.

The Python interpreter was working fine, but for some reason pip was not installed.

No matter how many I reinstalled or repaired my Python installation, I simply couldn't get it to work, which is why I decided to to try Ubuntu.

After trying py -m ensurepip --upgrade and py -m pip install -U pip as mentioned here, I finally got it installed and working.

But even after that I couldn't properly install Pyxel and couple of errors kept showing up.

Turns out, running Windows Terminal as Administrator and then using pip solves the problem

PS: It would be nice to run Pyxel as a Single Binary Executable without needing to install dependencies, like TIC-80 and PICO-8.