Compiling and installing library from source

[JOURNEYMAN]

Does compiling and installing library files from the source code also generate developer files for that library?
Apparently OpenSuSE 12.3 doesn't have SDL2 and I had to download the source code from the development site and compile it (SDL2-2.0.1). After installing the library, I still get the following error. I'm assuming this is due to the lack of development files for SDL2 library?

-- git reported v0.22.1-36-g4b99e75
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:97 (message):
Could NOT find SDL2 (missing: SDL2_LIBRARY)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:291 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
cmake/FindSDL2.cmake:179 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
CMakeLists.txt:1039 (find_package)

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** [cmake_check_build_system] Error 1

[Amanieu]

Use cmake options to override the location of the SDL2 library
cmake -DSDL2_LIBRARY="/path/to/libSDL2.so" -DSDL2_INCLUDE_DIR="/path/to/include/SDL2"

[Ishq]

You can still use SDL1.2 if you set the option in CMake.