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I had not installed sdl2_image. The dependencies seem to be the wrong version. They should be sdl2_image, sdl2_mixer and sdl2_ttf.

hmm... do you have sdl2_image installed? i will probably need to add it as a dependency

Build fails:

-- The C compiler identification is GNU 7.1.1
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.1.1
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.2")
-- Found libguile: /usr/lib/libguile-2.2.so (found version "2.2.2")
-- Found libSDL2: /usr/lib/libSDL2.so (found version "2.0.5")
-- Could NOT find libSDL2_image (missing: SDL2_IMAGE_LIBRARY SDL2_IMAGE_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- Could NOT find libSDL2_mixer (missing: SDL2_MIXER_LIBRARY SDL2_MIXER_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- Could NOT find libSDL2_ttf (missing: SDL2_TTF_LIBRARY SDL2_TTF_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- Found OpenGL: /usr/lib/libGL.so
-- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.so (found version "1.2.11")
-- Found libgc: /usr/lib/libgc.so (found version "7.6.0")
-- Found Gettext: /usr/bin/msgmerge (found version "0.19.8.1")
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
SDL2_IMAGE_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
SDL2_IMAGE_LIBRARY
linked by target "trackballs" in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
SDL2_MIXER_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
SDL2_MIXER_LIBRARY
linked by target "trackballs" in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
SDL2_TTF_INCLUDE_DIR
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
used as include directory in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3
SDL2_TTF_LIBRARY
linked by target "trackballs" in directory /tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/tmp/makepkg/trackballs/src/trackballs-1.2.3/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...

To get it to install, I needed two changes to the PKGBUILD.

First, replace "guile1.8" with "guile".

Second, get rid of the lines:

install -m644 ${srcdir}/*.map ${pkgdir}/usr/share/trackballs/levels
install -m644 ${srcdir}/*.scm ${pkgdir}/usr/share/trackballs/levels
install -m644 ${srcdir}/*.jpg ${pkgdir}/usr/share/trackballs/levels
install -m644 ${srcdir}/*.set ${pkgdir}/usr/share/trackballs/levels

@frsfnrrg thank you, was unaware of this thing. updated (used the first referenced repo).

There is a continuation of the project on Github at https://github.com/trackballs/trackballs, although that's kinda recent and probably unstable from all the updates. The other copy of the project is https://github.com/seeschloss/trackballs which provides a single patch off the base state. In mid-2016 the Sourceforge page had a few minor patches submitted.