diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.7.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.7.nix
index 76b08cd35c60..8053c82e90e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.7.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/love/0.7.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = ''
-    -I${SDL}/include/SDL
+    -I${SDL.dev}/include/SDL
     -I${freetype.dev}include/freetype2
   '';
 
diff --git a/pkgs/games/0ad/default.nix b/pkgs/games/0ad/default.nix
index 482d2b43df38..0a2c342e8ed4 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/0ad/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/0ad/default.nix
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-I${xproto}/include/X11"
     "-I${libX11.dev}/include/X11"
     "-I${libXcursor.dev}/include/X11"
-    "-I${SDL}/include/SDL"
+    "-I${SDL.dev}/include/SDL"
     "-I${SDL2}/include/SDL2"
   ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/games/brogue/default.nix b/pkgs/games/brogue/default.nix
index 134e94d1fc28..73a70f2f37e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/brogue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/brogue/default.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   prePatch = ''
     sed -i Makefile -e 's,LIBTCODDIR=.*,LIBTCODDIR=${libtcod},g' \
-                    -e 's,sdl-config,${SDL}/bin/sdl-config,g'
+                    -e 's,sdl-config,${SDL.dev}/bin/sdl-config,g'
     sed -i src/platform/tcod-platform.c -e "s,fonts/font,$out/share/brogue/fonts/font,g"
     make clean
     rm -rf src/libtcod*